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肉圆

肉圓
ròuyuán
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

一个肉圆 gè

Meanings

  1. 1 meatball
  2. 2 ba-wan (Taiwanese stuffed dumpling)

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家常菜 Home-style · 热菜 Hot dish

On the mainland, pork meatballs, fried, braised or cooked in soup. In Taiwanese shops it is ba-wan: a soft, translucent starch dumpling filled with pork and bamboo shoot, in a sweet savoury sauce.

Examples

HSK 5
食堂今天有红烧肉圆，一份三个。
Shítáng jīntiān yǒu hóngshāo ròuyuán, yí fèn sān ge.
The canteen has braised meatballs today, three to a serving.
HSK 7-9
台湾的肉圆外皮是半透明的，咬起来很有弹性。
Táiwān de ròuyuán wàipí shì bàntòumíng de, yǎo qǐlai hěn yǒu tánxìng.
Taiwanese ba-wan has a translucent wrapper that is springy to bite.

Stroke Order

肉 ròu
圆 yuán