こんにゃく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こんにゃく – see the following entry.

【蒟蒻】 [noun] [from 918] 蒟蒻, 菎蒻: konjac (both the plant and the food made from the plant) [noun] [from 1775] 蒟蒻: (slang) Short for 蒟蒻島 (Konnyaku-jima): obsolete name for the 新川 (Shingawa) area in modern-day 中央区 (Chūō-ku, “Central Ward”) in Tokyo Alternative spellings 菎蒻, コンニャク

(This term, こんにゃく, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)