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馄

餛
hún
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 馄饨) wonton

Examples

HSK 7-9
我想吃一碗馄饨当早饭。
Wǒ xiǎng chī yì wǎn húntun dāng zǎofàn.
I'd like a bowl of wontons for breakfast.
HSK 7-9
这家店的馄饨皮薄馅多。
Zhè jiā diàn de húntun pí báo xiàn duō.
The wontons at this shop have thin skins and lots of filling.

Tips

culture
馄 only appears in 馄饨 (wonton), a soup dumpling with thin wrappers. The 饨 syllable is usually toneless in the word.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food; eat (radical form)
Left-side food radical, the side form of 食. It marks 馄 as an edible item, here part of the dish 馄饨.
phonetic
昆 kūn
elder; numerous
Right side 昆 is the phonetic element; the sound has shifted from kūn to hún, so read it as a rough sound hint rather than an exact match.

Stroke Order

馄 hún