náng / nǎng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 naan; a round baked flatbread

Examples

Náng shì Wéiwú'ěrzú hé Hāsàkè zú de zhǔshí.
Naan is a staple food of the Uyghur and Kazakh peoples.
Xīnjiāng de náng yòng ní lú kǎo chéng, néng cúnfàng hěn jiǔ.
Naan from Xinjiang is baked in a clay oven and keeps for a long time.

Tips

culture
is the round wheat flatbread baked on the wall of a clay oven, a daily staple across Xinjiang. A separate reading nǎng means to gorge oneself (see the other entry).

Components

radical
shí
food; eat
is the food radical in left-side form, marking as something to eat.
phonetic
náng
bag; sack
gives the exact sound náng and carries no meaning in ; it is purely the phonetic, which is why the character has so many strokes.

Stroke Order

náng