tuō
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (used in 馎饦) an old kind of boiled wheat-dough pasta or cake

Examples

Jiùshí xīběi zuò yì zhǒng shǒu lā de miànshí jiào bó tuō.
In the old days the northwest made a hand-pulled dough dish called botuo.

Tips

history
is not used on its own in modern Chinese. It survives only in the old food term (a flattened, boiled wheat-dough food), a regional and historical dish name.
register
Archaic and regional food vocabulary, found in old texts and local dish names, not in standard everyday speech.

Components

radical
shí
food; to eat
is the food radical in left-side form. It marks the meaning: is something to eat, a dough food.
phonetic
tuō
a plant stalk (托 phonetic base)
supplies the sound tuō. The same phonetic base appears in (to hold up) and (residence).

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Stroke Order

tuō