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面粉miàn fěn
flour
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 面粉 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 麵粉 | ||
| 2. n. face powder | ||
| 麵粉 | miànfěn | |
| 1. n. flour | ||
| 麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| flour | ||
| 1. 面粉；粉状物 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 粉 | fěn | |
| 1. powder | ||
| 麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. | ||
| 2. face powder | ||
| 3. 粉墨登場 - to go on the stage | ||
| 4. flour | ||
| 5. (Cantonese, slang) heroin | ||
| 粉碎 - to smash | ||
| 粉身--碎骨 - to have one's body smashed to pieces | ||
| 6. (color) | ||
| 7. pink | ||
| 8. 我 把 頭髮 染 成 了 粉 的。 - I dyed my hair pink. | ||
| 9. white | ||
| 10. 粉壁 - white wall | ||
| 11. 粉飾 - to whitewash | ||
| 12. (dialectal) to whitewash | ||
| 13. (food) | ||
| 14. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.) | ||
| 15. 粉條 - Chinese vermicelli | ||
| 16. 涼粉 - grass jelly | ||
| 17. 河粉 - he fen noodles | ||
| 18. bean or sweet potato noodles | ||
| 19. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 20. fan; fanatic | ||
| 明 粉 - fan of the Ming dynasty | ||
| 川粉 - fan of Donald Trump | ||
| 米粉 - fan of Xiaomi | ||
| 21. (Internet, neologism, slang) follower on a social media platform; subscriber | ||
| 22. to be a fan of (a person, a group, etc.); to admire | ||
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Pronunciation
miàn fěn
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