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饹

餎
le / gē
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

饸饹是北方有名的小吃。
Hé le shì běifāng yǒumíng de xiǎochī.
Hele noodles are a famous northern snack.
这家饭馆的饸饹特别筋道好吃。
Zhè jiā fànguǎn de hé le tèbié jīndao hǎochī.
This restaurant's hele noodles are especially chewy and good.

Tips

usage
In its everyday use 饹 is read toneless le, only as the second syllable of 饸饹 héle, a northern pressed noodle. A separate, much rarer reading gē appears in the snack name 饹馇 gēzha.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food; to eat (radical form of 食)
The side-form food radical 饣, a compressed 食, marks 饹 as something edible, the same radical found in 饭 rice and 饼 flatbread.
phonetic
各 gè
each; every (here phonetic)
Right is 各, the phonetic. It points more clearly to the gē reading; in the common word 饸饹 it has weakened to a toneless le.

Stroke Order

饹 le