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豚カツ (とんかつ, tonkatsu) Japanese meaning: tonkatsu | Kotomora
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Let's have tonkatsu for dinner tonight.
The tonkatsu at this restaurant has thick, juicy meat.
Usage patterns 豚とん カツを 揚あ げる to deep-fry tonkatsu
My mother deep-fries tonkatsu for us every night.
豚とん カツにソースをかける to pour sauce over tonkatsu
I poured plenty of sauce over the tonkatsu and ate it.
豚とん カツを 切き る to slice tonkatsu into strips
I sliced the tonkatsu into bite-sized pieces before plating it.
Don't confuse with 豚カツ is just the fried cutlet itself, whereas カツ丼 is a full rice-bowl dish topped with tonkatsu and egg in sauce.
トンカツ specifically means a pork cutlet, whereas カツ is the generic term that can refer to pork, chicken, or other breaded cutlets.
コロッケ is a breaded fried patty of mashed potato or minced filling, whereas トンカツ is a breaded fried whole pork cutlet.
Written forms 豚とん カツ Usage 10%
Common kanji-katakana mixed spelling; it is the primary form.
とんかつ Usage 46%
kana-only spelling
Kana spelling is very common and as the usual written form.
トンカツ Usage 41%
kana-only spelling
Full-width katakana spelling, often seen on menus and in casual writing.
とんカツ Usage
Etymology A compound of 豚 (ton, 'pork') and カツ (katsu), an abbreviation of カツレツ (katsuretsu), from English 'cutlet'. The word is a Japanese creation and not a direct loanword from English.
3%
Mixed hiragana-katakana spelling, less common but still encountered.
