DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

麥麗素

简麦丽素 · 繁麥麗素

Mandarin · pinyin Mài lì sù

Chinese chocolate-coated confectionery modeled on Maltesers 麥提莎 Mài tí shā

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

麥: Look up this written character
麗: lì · beautiful, magnificent, elegant
素: sù · white (silk); plain; vegetarian; formerly; normally
麦: mài · wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of Kangxi radical 199
丽: lì · beautiful, magnificent, elegant

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–4–4 · Mai4 li4 su4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links1source reference

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

麥麗素 · find source passages ↗ · 麦丽素 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗