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餲

Mandarin · pinyin ài#

(literary) (of food) spoiled; sour; gone off

Mandarin · pinyin hé#

deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子 sǎn zi

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4 · ai4

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aai3 · aat3 · hot3 · ngaat3

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character · Etymology 1

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of food) to become spoiled after a long time

character · Etymology 2

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of fried food made of flour

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