馍

饃
mó
noun #29,266

Measure Word

一个馍 gè

Meanings

  1. 1 steamed bread; steamed bun (Northern Chinese dialect)

Examples

HSK 2
Tā zǎofàn jiù chī le liǎng gè mó.
He just had two steamed buns for breakfast.
HSK 7-9
Shǎnxī de ròujiāmó shì yòng mó jiā zhe ròu zuò de.
Shaanxi's rou jia mo is made by stuffing meat into a steamed bun.

Tips

culture
馍 is a staple food in northern and northwestern China, especially in Shaanxi and Henan provinces. It is central to 肉夹馍, sometimes called a 'Chinese hamburger.' In the south, the equivalent term is 馒头.

Components

radical
饣 shí
food (radical form of 食)
Left food radical - the indexing radical in its 3-stroke side form (compare full 食 standalone). Marks 馍 as a foodstuff: a wheat bun, the staple bread of northern China. Anchors it in the food family with 饭 (rice meal), 饺 (dumpling), 馒 (mantou bun), 饼 (flatbread).
phonetic
莫 mò
do not; none
Right side 莫 supplies the sound - mò shifted to mó through tone change. Same phonetic appears in 模 (model), 摸 (touch), 膜 (membrane), 漠 (desert) - a tidy mó-family clustered around the same onset. The 'don't / none' meaning of 莫 is unused here; pure sound role.

Stroke Order

馍 mó