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  *河* | 河* | *河
river (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉
HSK 2
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  *麵* | 麵* | *麵
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless
HSK 2
to boil noodles
HSK 3
instant noodles
HSK 2
stir-fried noodles / "chow mein"
topping (mixture of ingredients and sauce poured over noodles or rice, esp. in Shanghainese cuisine)
pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia
zhajiang mian, thick wheat noodles served with ground pork simmered in salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce)
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
Sichuan noodles with a spicy and numbing sauce
(of noodles etc) springy; chewy
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  *粉* | 粉* | *粉
powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝) / to be a fan of
HSK 7-9
brand of Hong Kong instant noodles / also used as term for instant noodles in general
instant noodles
to slurp noodles
all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi, also known as 𰻞𰻞麵|𰻝𰻝
buldak ramen (a type of spicy Korean instant noodles)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坨* | 坨* | *坨
mound; heap; lump / classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits) / (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子|饺子 etc) to stick together; to form a clump
noodles
beef noodle soup
pulled noodles / ramen
liangpi (noodle-like dish)
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
knife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
udon noodles
food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc
cold noodles in sauce
noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
instant noodles (old)
noodles in meat soup
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc
chopped fried noodles
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
braised noodles / stewed noodles
(Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a filling in buns etc) / Taiwan pr. [rou4 sao4]
deep-fried noodle cake
yi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
cup noodles
noodles in soup
cooked noodles cooled with cold water
naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
(Tw) glass noodles; mung bean vermicelli
ta-a noodles or danzai noodles, popular snack originating from Tainan
cold noodles
noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter etc
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
instant noodles
plain noodles in broth
oat noodles or flour
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
"hele" noodles, a type of noodle made from buckwheat or sorghum flour
a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
to make noodles by pulling out dough / hand-pulled noodles
instant noodles / (Tw) pirated software
nabeyaki egg noodles
rice-flour noodles
buckwheat pudding (snack of buckwheat noodles with sauce)
udon, a thick Japanese-style wheat-flour noodle
pasta / noodles
hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle
rice and noodles / rice flour / rice-flour noodles
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
plain noodles in broth
two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
(Cantonese cuisine) zhaliang, rice noodle rolls 腸粉|肠粉 stuffed with youtiao 油條|油条
sweet potato or yam noodles
misua; wheat vermicelli (very thin variety of wheat noodles used esp. in Fujian)
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
pasta (abbr. for 意大利麵|意大利面) / (Tw) yi mein, a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
vegetable noodle dish
kway chap (Teochew noodle soup)
birthday noodles (for longevity)
a type of short and wide noodle
noodles
board for making noodles or kneading bread dough
noodle dishes (on menu)
noodle stall or counter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糗* | 糗* | *糗
dry rations (for a journey) / (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking) / (coll.) embarrassing / embarrassment
luosifen (rice noodles served in a broth made from river snails and pork bones, often seasoned with stinky fermented bamboo shoots)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糆* | 糆* | *糆
variant of 麵|面 / rice noodles / rice fragments
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi


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