noun #81,641

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 糍粑) glutinous rice cake

Examples

HSK 7-9
Guònián shí nóngcūn rén dǎ cíbā.
During Spring Festival country folk pound glutinous rice cakes.
HSK 7-9
Gāng zuò de cíbā ruǎn nuò, hěn hǎochī.
Freshly made rice cakes are soft and chewy, very tasty.

Tips

culture
is bound, used in 糍粑 - a glutinous rice cake made by steaming and pounding sticky rice. It is a beloved festival food across southern and southwestern China.

Components

radical
rice; grain
The rice radical on the left, a pictograph of scattered grains. It anchors the meaning in a rice food - here a pounded glutinous rice cake. It groups with , , and .
phonetic
phonetic component
Supplies the sound (zī close to cí). It works purely as a pronunciation marker for this rice-food word, with no meaning contribution.

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