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面包miàn bāo
bread
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
面包 | ||
1. Simplified form of 麵包 | ||
2. n. (Waxiang) face | ||
麵包 | miànbāo | |
1. n. bread | ||
兩 塊 麵包 - two loaves of bread | ||
兩 片 麵包 - two slices of bread | ||
四 條 麵包 - four loaves of bread | ||
三 塊 麵包 - three slices of bread | ||
2. n. (proscribed) baked good; roll; bun; pastry; cake | ||
兩 個 麵包 - two baked goods | ||
3. n. (Penghu Min Nan) mantou | ||
English > Chinese | ||
bread | ||
1. 名词. 麵包 | ||
Components | ||
面 | miàn | |
1. (literary or dialectal) face | ||
面 帶 笑容 - miàn dài xiàoróng - to have a smile on one's face | ||
你 塊 面 有 笪 嘢。 - There's something on your face. | ||
2. surface; top; face | ||
水面 - shuǐmiàn - water surface | ||
路面 - lùmiàn - road surface | ||
3. aspect; side; respect | ||
全面 - quánmiàn - overall | ||
4. right side; cover; outside | ||
5. (geometry) face | ||
長方體 有 六 個 面。 ( Chángfāngtǐ yǒu liù ge miàn.) - A cuboid has six faces. | ||
6. (Cantonese, Singapore, &, Penang Hokkien) dignity; reputation; face | ||
冇面min6-2 - mou5 min6-2 - to lose face; to be embarrassed, C | ||
7. to meet | ||
面世 - miànshì - to come out, lit=to meet the world | ||
8. face-to-face | ||
面談 - miàntán - to talk with someone face to face | ||
面告 - miàngào - to inform face to face | ||
9. to face | ||
面壁 - miànbì - to face the wall | ||
背 山 面 水 - bèi shān miàn shuǐ - backing on to a mountain and facing a body of water | ||
10. (suffix used to form a noun of locality) | ||
前面 - qiánmiàn - in front | ||
上面 - shàngmiàn - higher place | ||
西面 - xīmiàn - west | ||
11. Short for 面試, interview | ||
HR面 - tr=HRmiàn - | ||
一 面 國旗 - yī miàn guóqí - a national flag | ||
一 面 鼓 - yī miàn gǔ - a drum | ||
我 和 他 只 見 過guo 一 面。 (Wǒ hé tā zhǐ jiàn guo yī miàn.) - I have only met him once. | ||
12. Simplified form of 麵 | ||
麵 | miàn | |
1. flour | ||
玉米麵 - corn flour | ||
麵粉 - flour | ||
發麵 - to leaven a dough | ||
2. wheat noodles | ||
湯麵 - noodles in soup | ||
3. (mainland China) powder | ||
藥麵兒r - medicinal powder | ||
4. (mainland China, dialectal) soft and floury | ||
這 塊 白薯 很 麵。 - This piece of sweet potato is really soft and floury. | ||
5. (Mandarin, colloquial, of a person) weak; timid; indecisive; slow | ||
包 | bāo | |
1. to wrap up; to enwrap; to bundle up | ||
2. to include; to encompass | ||
3. to cover; to place under cover | ||
4. to assure; to ensure; to guarantee | ||
包 你 滿意 - You're guaranteed to be pleased - | ||
5. to reserve or dedicate for a specific purpose | ||
6. to make a wrapped item | ||
包 餃子zi - to make dumplings - | ||
包 雲吞 - to make wontons - | ||
包 粽 - to make zongzi - | ||
7. to surround | ||
8. (Malaysia, Singapore, slang) Short for 打包, to take away (food) | ||
9. bundle; bunch | ||
10. parcel; package | ||
11. (software) package | ||
包管理器 - package manager | ||
12. bag; sack | ||
書包 - schoolbag; backpack | ||
13. bump; swelling | ||
14. yurt | ||
15. (food) baozi | ||
叉燒包 - char siu bao | ||
小籠包 - xiaolongbao | ||
16. (food) bun; bread (any small baked good) | ||
(Alternative form 飽) | ||
麵包 - bread | ||
漢堡包 - hamburger | ||
一 包 薯片 - a bag of potato chips | ||
包 拯 - Bao Zheng (Chinese politician during the Song dynasty) | ||
17. Only used in 包來 | ||
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