Mandchou

From French Mandchou.

Mandchou (plural Mandchous)

1. Obsolete form of Manchu.

Mandchou

1. Obsolete form of Manchu.
   • 1844, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 569:

     The volume before us presents, first of all, a paradigma, or specimen sheet, on which each letter of the English alphabet, small and capital, written and printed, is accompanied by its pronunciation in Chinese phonetic signs, as well as in Mandchou letters.

From Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju); first attested in 1724 as Mant-cheoux.

Mandchou m (plural Mandchous, feminine Mandchoue)

1. Manchu (person)

• Mandchourie

• “Mandchou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.