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烤面包机kăo miàn bāo jī
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Definitions
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| 烤面包机 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 烤麵包機 | ||
| 烤麵包機 | kǎomiànbāojī | |
| 1. n. toaster | ||
| Components | ||
| 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 | ||
| 烤 | kǎo | |
| 1. to roast; to bake; to toast | ||
| Synonyms: 燒, nan:捁 | ||
| 烤 焦 了 - burnt it | ||
| 2. to dry using fire | ||
| 3. to heat oneself up | ||
| 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 | ||
| 机 | ||
| 1. Variant of 機 | ||
| 2. Alternative form of 几 (small table; stool) | ||
| 機 | jī | |
| 1. weaving machine; spinning machine | ||
| 機杼 - loom | ||
| 2. machine; apparatus; device | ||
| 打字機 - typewriter | ||
| 3. (mostly in compounds) Short for *飛機 (aircraft) | ||
| 4. (mostly in compounds) Short for *手機 (cellphone) | ||
| 5. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for *遊戲機 (video game) | ||
| 6. mechanism; process | ||
| 玄機 - arcane truth; nature's mystery | ||
| 7. cause; reason | ||
| 8. secret; confidential (affair) | ||
| 機密 - top secret | ||
| 9. opportunity; chance; crucial point | ||
| 戰機 - opportunity in battle | ||
| 10. plan; idea | ||
| 神機 - marvellous strategy | ||
| 11. flexible; quick-witted | ||
| 12. organic | ||
| 有機 - organic | ||
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Pronunciation
kăo miàn bāo jī
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