烟管面

煙管麵
yānguǎnmiàn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 elbow pasta
  2. 2 elbow macaroni

Examples

Tā zuò le yí fèn zhīshì yānguǎnmiàn.
She made a serving of macaroni and cheese.
Chāoshì lǐ yǒu gèzhǒng Yìdàlì yānguǎnmiàn.
The supermarket has all kinds of Italian elbow pasta.

Tips

memory
Literally 'pipe-noodle' — means a smoking pipe, whose curved shape mirrors the elbow bend of macaroni. Long-form pasta vocabulary: 通心粉 (tōngxīnfěn) is also used for macaroni broadly.

Stroke Order

yān
guǎn
miàn