noun
Refers to the carbohydrate starch, commonly used in cooking and food science. The word is usually written in kana (でんぷん) in everyday contexts.
じゃがいもにはでんぷんが多く含まれている。
Potatoes contain a lot of starch.
この料理にはでん粉を使います。
This dish uses starch.
Formal kanji spelling; rarely used in everyday writing. It is usually written in kana.
Rarely used kanji form.
The kanji 澱 means 'sediment' or 'dregs', and 粉 means 'powder', together suggesting a powdery substance that settles. The reading でんぷん is the on'yomi of these characters. The word is usually written in kana in modern Japanese.