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  *麵* | 麵* | *麵
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless
HSK 2
instant noodles
HSK 2
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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
to boil noodles
HSK 3
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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
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi
instant noodles
noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
instant noodles / (Tw) pirated software
food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc
stir-fried noodles / "chow mein"
pulled noodles / ramen
cup noodles
cold noodles
noodles in soup
noodles
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
rice-flour noodles
noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter etc
naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
udon, a thick Japanese-style wheat-flour noodle
(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]
knife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
rice and noodles / rice flour / rice-flour noodles
Sichuan noodles with a spicy and numbing sauce
zhajiang mian, thick wheat noodles served with ground pork simmered in salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce)
all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
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  *糗* | 糗* | *糗
dry rations (for a journey) / (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking) / (coll.) embarrassing / embarrassment
ta-a noodles or danzai noodles, popular snack originating from Tainan
"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
deep-fried noodle cake
plain noodles in broth
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  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
cooked noodles cooled with cold water
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  *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
cold noodles in sauce
instant noodles (old)
a type of short and wide noodle
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  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
vegetable noodle dish
noodle dishes (on menu)
to make noodles by pulling out dough / hand-pulled noodles
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  *糆* | 糆* | *糆
variant of 麵|面 / rice noodles / rice fragments
to slurp noodles
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
nabeyaki egg noodles
oat noodles or flour
hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle
braised noodles / stewed noodles
(Tw) cellophane noodles; mung bean vermicelli
brand of Hong Kong instant noodles / also used as term for instant noodles in general
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
noodles in meat soup
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
pasta (abbr. for 意大利麵|意大利面) / (Tw) yi mein, a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
kway chap (Teochew noodle soup)
noodles
buldak ramen (a type of spicy Korean instant noodles)
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
(Cantonese cuisine) zhaliang, rice noodle rolls 腸粉|肠粉 stuffed with youtiao 油條|油条
noodle stall or counter
udon noodles
liangpi (noodle-like dish)
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc
luosifen (rice noodles served in a broth made from river snails and pork bones, often seasoned with stinky fermented bamboo shoots)
beef noodle soup
chopped fried noodles
yi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
plain noodles in broth
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
sweet potato or yam noodles
birthday noodles (for longevity)
instant noodles
buckwheat pudding (snack of buckwheat noodles with sauce)
pasta / noodles
pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi, also known as 𰻞𰻞麵|𰻝𰻝
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)
"hele" noodles, a type of noodle made from buckwheat or sorghum flour
board for making noodles or kneading bread dough
misua; wheat vermicelli (very thin variety of wheat noodles used esp. in Fujian)


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