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| 面条 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 麵條 |
| 麵條 | miàntiáo |
| 1. n. noodles |
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| noodle | |
| 1. 名词. 麵 |
| Components | |
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| 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 |
| 条 | |
| 1. Variant of 條 |
| 條 | tiáo |
| 1. strip; slip |
| 紙條 - slip of paper |
| 2. twig; branch |
| 柳條 - willow branch |
| 3. (of law or treaty) item; article; section; clause; condition |
| 條款 - term; condition; clause; provision |
| 4. informal note |
| 病假jià條 - certificate for sick leave |
| 廚房 裡 我 發現 他 留 了 張 條 - I found a note from him in the kitchen. |
| 5. order |
| 有條不紊 - in perfect order; methodically arranged |
| 一 條 紅 魚 - a red fish |
| 一 條 蛇 - a snake |
| 一 條 路 - a road |
| 一 條 河 - a river |
| 一 條 褲子zi - a pair of pants |
| 一 條 數學 題 - a math problem |
| 聽講 貓 有 九 條 命。 - I've heard it said that cats have nine lives. |
| 6. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Min Nan) |
| 7. (Cantonese, often, derogatory) |
| 嗰 條 女neoi5-2 - that girl |
| 8. (Cantonese) |
| 三條九 - 999 |
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