- Ritual
- Sadanggu / Sadenggu（少女の成人通過儀礼）
- Region and community
- マレーシア・マラッカ／チェティ共同体
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity
- Legal age of majority
- Malaysia18 yearsMalaysia · Calendar unspecified · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
Among the Chetti community of Malacca, Sadanggu or Sadenggu follows a girl’s first menstruation. She is ritually bathed, changes her clothing, and is presented in a form that marks movement from girlhood to adult womanhood.
Malaysia’s cultural mapping record describes the continuing custom but does not identify the date of a final individual ceremony.
Related rites
