猫耳朵

貓耳朵
māoěrduo
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 cat's ears (pasta)
  2. 2 Shanxi small pasta pieces shaped like cat ears
  3. 3 orecchiette-like hand-formed dough

Examples

Nǎinai zài chúfáng cuō māoěrduo.
Grandma is rolling cat-ear pasta in the kitchen.
Zhè wǎn māoěrduo yòu yǒu xīhóngshì yòu yǒu ròumò.
This bowl of cat-ear pasta has both tomatoes and minced meat.

Tips

memory
Small ovals of dough rolled against the thumb on a wooden board, curling them into ear-shaped pieces the size of a cat's ear. A Shanxi mian-shi () classic — similar technique to Italian orecchiette ('little ears').

Stroke Order

māo
ěr
duǒ