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面食

miànshí

food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 面食 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 面食 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

在中国，南方人以米饭为主食，北方人以面食为主食。zài zhōng guó， nán fāng rén yǐ mǐ fàn wéi zhǔ shí， běi fāng rén yǐ miàn shí wéi zhǔ shí。

In China, southern people eat rice as staple food; northern people eat wheaten food as staple food.

中国北方的人习惯以面食为主食，而南方的人则习惯以大米为主食。zhōng guó běi fāng de rén xí guàn yǐ miàn shí wéi zhǔ shí， ér nán fāng de rén zé xí guàn yǐ dà mǐ wéi zhǔ shí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 面食.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 面食.

Directly before

  • 人以面食1
  • 以面食1

Directly after

  • 面食为主2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 面食

What does 面食 mean in Chinese?

面食 (miànshí) means food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc.

How do you pronounce 面食?

面食 is pronounced miànshí.

Is 面食 an HSK word?

面食 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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