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饸

餄
hé
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 饸饹) pressed buckwheat or sorghum noodles

Examples

饸饹是北方有名的小吃，用专门的床子压出来。
Hé le shì běifāng yǒumíng de xiǎochī, yòng zhuānmén de chuángzi yā chūlái.
Hele noodles are a famous northern snack, pressed out with a special press.
今天中午我们吃了一大碗热饸饹。
Jīntiān zhōngwǔ wǒmen chī le yì dà wǎn rè hé le.
We had a big bowl of hot hele noodles for lunch today.

Tips

usage
饸 is a bound character used only in 饸饹 héle, a northern Chinese noodle made of buckwheat or sorghum dough forced through a hole-plate press. Note 饹 is read toneless le here, not gē.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food; to eat (radical form of 食)
The side-form food radical 饣, a compressed 食, marks 饸 as something edible, the same radical found in 饭 rice and 饺 dumpling.
phonetic
合 hé
to join; to close (here phonetic)
Right is 合, giving the sound hé directly for this bound food word.

Stroke Order

饸 hé