乾麵

简 干面 · 繁 乾麵
Mandarin · pinyin gān miàn

Meanings

  1. noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup)
  2. (dialect) flour
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乾
qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
麵
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干
gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
面
miàn · face; surface; plane; side, dimension; Kangxi radical 176
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1–4 · gan1 mian4

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noun

  1. noodles served without a soup; dry noodles
  2. (Wu, Jianghuai Mandarin) flour

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