云片糕

雲片糕
yúnpiàngāo
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 thin-sliced sweet rice cake
  2. 2 cloud-slice cake

Examples

Nǎinai xǐhuān pèi chá chī yúnpiàngāo.
Grandma likes eating yunpiangao with tea.
Yúnpiàngāo yòu bái yòu báo, rùkǒu jiù huà.
Yunpiangao is white and thin; it melts in the mouth.

Tips

culture
A traditional rice-flour cake from Jiangsu (especially Yangzhou and Taixing), made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, and walnut bits, then sliced paper-thin. The name compares the slices to white clouds.

Stroke Order

yún
piàn
gāo