馄 (hún): (in 馄饨) wonton

Meanings

我想吃一碗馄饨当早饭。

Wǒ xiǎng chī yìwǎn húntun dāng zǎofàn.

I'd like a bowl of wontons for breakfast.

这家店的馄饨皮薄馅多。

Zhèjiādiàn de húntun pí báo xiàn duō.

The wontons at this shop have thin skins and lots of filling.

culture

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

radical

饣 shízìpáng

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 (here phonetic)

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.

馄 hún