mandchou
French, noun
mandchou is spelled M-A-N-D-C-H-O-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 102,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mandchou is a French masculine noun meaning “Manchu (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mandchou is a different word: “Manchu (person)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue toungouse méridionale, autrefois parlée par les Mandchous”.
What does mandchou mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Manchu (from Manchuria)
noun
- 1
masculineManchu (language)
noun
- 1
masculineManchu (person)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la Mandchourie, aux Mandchous ou à la langue mandchoue.
noun: 1. Langue toungouse méridionale, autrefois parlée par les Mandchous.
noun: 1. Membre de l’ethnie dirigeante de l’ancienne dynastie Qing, originaire de Mandchourie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mandchou
- mandchoue feminine
- mandchous masculine plural
- mandchoues feminine plural
- mantchou alternative obsolete
- Mandchous plural
- Mandchoue feminine
- mandjou
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mandchou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mandchou in French?
mandchou appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).