zān
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 糌粑) tsampa, roasted barley flour

Examples

Zānbā shì Zàngzú de zhǔshí.
Tsampa is the staple food of Tibetans.
Tā bǎ zānbā hé sūyóuchá bàn zhe chī.
He mixed the tsampa with butter tea and ate it.

Tips

culture
Used only in 糌粑 (tsampa), roasted highland-barley flour that is the staple food of Tibet. It is eaten kneaded together with 酥油茶 (butter tea) into small dough balls.

Components

radical
rice; grain
The grain radical on the left files this as a milled-grain food. It is fitting: tsampa is ground barley flour, so the rice/grain radical signals 'a powdered cereal' even though the grain is barley, not rice.
phonetic
zǎn
(a surname) (phonetic)
The right side supplies the sound (zǎn → zān). is a transliteration character coined to write the Tibetan word, so the meaning comes entirely from the grain radical while this part only carries the pronunciation.

Stroke Order

zān