The Chinese word for flour is
面粉
miàn fěnChinese Definition
flour | |
1. 面粉;粉状物 | |
Components | |
面 | |
1. (literary or dialectal) face | |
面 帶 笑容 - miàn dài xiàoróng - to have a smile on one's face | |
你 塊 面 有 笪 嘢。 - There's something on your face. | |
2. surface; top; face | |
水面 - shuǐmiàn - water surface | |
路面 - lùmiàn - road surface | |
3. aspect; side; respect | |
全面 - quánmiàn - overall | |
4. right side; cover; outside | |
5. (geometry) face | |
長方體 有 六 個 面。 ( Chángfāngtǐ yǒu liù ge miàn.) - A cuboid has six faces. | |
6. (Cantonese, Singapore, &, Penang Hokkien) dignity; reputation; face | |
冇面min6-2 - mou5 min6-2 - to lose face; to be embarrassed, C | |
7. to meet | |
面世 - miànshì - to come out, lit=to meet the world | |
8. face-to-face | |
面談 - miàntán - to talk with someone face to face | |
面告 - miàngào - to inform face to face | |
9. to face | |
面壁 - miànbì - to face the wall | |
背 山 面 水 - bèi shān miàn shuǐ - backing on to a mountain and facing a body of water | |
10. (suffix used to form a noun of locality) | |
前面 - qiánmiàn - in front | |
上面 - shàngmiàn - higher place | |
西面 - xīmiàn - west | |
11. Short for 面試, interview | |
HR面 - tr=HRmiàn - | |
一 面 國旗 - yī miàn guóqí - a national flag | |
一 面 鼓 - yī miàn gǔ - a drum | |
我 和 他 只 見 過guo 一 面。 (Wǒ hé tā zhǐ jiàn guo yī miàn.) - I have only met him once. | |
12. Simplified form of 麵 | |
粉 | |
1. powder | |
麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. | |
2. face powder | |
3. 粉墨登場 - to go on the stage | |
4. flour | |
5. (Cantonese, slang) heroin | |
粉碎 - to smash | |
粉身--碎骨 - to have one's body smashed to pieces | |
6. (color) | |
7. pink | |
8. 我 把 頭髮 染 成 了 粉 的。 - I dyed my hair pink. | |
9. white | |
10. 粉壁 - white wall | |
11. 粉飾 - to whitewash | |
12. (dialectal) to whitewash | |
13. (food) | |
14. food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc.) | |
15. 粉條 - Chinese vermicelli | |
16. 涼粉 - grass jelly | |
17. 河粉 - he fen noodles | |
18. bean or sweet potato noodles | |
19. =====Usage notes===== | |
20. fan; fanatic | |
^明 粉 - fan of the Ming dynasty | |
川粉 - fan of Donald Trump | |
米粉 - fan of Xiaomi | |
21. (Internet, neologism, slang) follower on a social media platform; subscriber | |
22. to be a fan of (a person, a group, etc.); to admire |
Translations for 粉 and their definitions
麵粉 | |
1. n. flour | |
麵粉 是 小麥 做 的 粉。 - Flour is a powder made from wheat. |
面粉 | |
1. Simplified form of 麵粉 | |
2. n. face powder |
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