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The Chinese word for flour is
面粉

miàn fěn



flour

Chinese Definition


flour
     1. 面粉;粉状物
Components
     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
     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 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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