tube-shaped wheat gluten cake
A Japanese food made from wheat flour, shaped like a tube (similar to chikuwa fish cake), often used in oden.
When you put chikuwabu in oden, it absorbs the broth and becomes delicious.
Standard kanji spelling for this food item.
Simplified variant using hiragana for the second part.
Rare variant using a different kanji for 'fu'.
Compound of 竹輪 (chikuwa, 'tube-shaped fish cake') and 麩 (fu, 'wheat gluten'), referring to its tube-like shape and wheat-based composition.