/ le
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 饹馇) a pan-fried cake of millet or bean flour

Examples

HSK 7-9
Gē zha shì yòng xiǎomǐ huò lǜdòu miàn zuò de chuántǒng xiǎochī.
Geza is a traditional snack made from millet or mung bean flour.
HSK 7-9
Nǎinai gěi wǒmen jiān le yì pán gē zha.
Grandma fried a plate of geza for us.

Tips

usage
The gē reading is bound to 饹馇, a regional pan-fried cake of millet or bean flour. This is the rarer of the two readings - the everyday one is toneless le in 饸饹 noodles.

Components

radical
shí
food; to eat
The side-form food radical , a compressed , marks as something edible, the same radical found in rice and flatbread.
phonetic
each; every
Right is , the phonetic. It points more clearly to the gē reading; in the common word 饸饹 it has weakened to a toneless le.

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