Word Meaning 雪隠で饅頭

せんちでまんじゅう senchi de manjuu

雪隠で饅頭 is read as せんちでまんじゅう (senchi de manjuu) and means hiding something good for oneself alone.

Meaning

English

  1. hiding something good for oneself alone
  2. if you are hungry, where you eat doesn't matter
  3. manjū in the toilet

Reading

Kana

せんちでまんじゅう

Romaji

senchi de manjuu

Writing Variants

  • せんちで饅頭 せんちでまんじゅう senchidemanjuu
  • 雪隠で饅頭 せっちんでまんじゅう secchin de manjuu

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 64 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 1級 Proverb Rank 154384 Priority Y

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

雪隠大工

せっちんだいく

lousy carpenter

雪隠金亀子

せんちこがね

Geotrupes laevistriatus (species of dor beetle)

雪隠詰

せっちんづめ

cornering an opponent's king (shogi)

雪隠

せんち

toilet

土饅頭

どまんじゅう

burial mound

饅頭

まんじゅう

manjū

饅頭

まんとう

mantou

のー饅頭

のーまんじゅう

no-manjū

中華饅頭

ちゅうかまんじゅう

sweet crescent-shaped confection of pancake-like sponge cake filled with adzuki paste

船饅頭

ふなまんじゅう

low-grade prostitute

押し競饅頭

おしくらまんじゅう

children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle

肉饅頭

にくまんじゅう

manjū (steamed bun) with meat filling