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HSK
to boil noodles
HSK 3
liangpi (noodle-like dish)
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
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  *河* | 河* | *河
river (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉
HSK 2
all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles
food made from wheat flour, such as noodles, dumplings, buns etc
two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final)
cold noodles
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  *面* | 面* | *面
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless
HSK 2
cup noodles
pasta (abbr. for 意大利麵|意大利面) / (Tw) yi mein, a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
cold noodles in sauce
udon, a thick Japanese-style wheat-flour noodle
stir-fried noodles / "chow mein"
bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles / fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
HSK 7-9
instant noodles / (Tw) pirated software
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
instant noodles
pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia
pasta / noodles
to slurp noodles
noodles
noodles in soup
cooked noodles cooled with cold water
plain noodles in broth
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
noodles served hot, with toppings including sesame paste and soy sauce – popular in Wuhan as a breakfast dish or late-night snack
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  *坨* | 坨* | *坨
mound; heap; lump / classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits) / (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子|饺子 etc) to stick together; to form a clump
yi mein (or yee mee or yee-fu noodles etc), a variety of Cantonese egg noodle
rice-flour noodles
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
beef noodle soup
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc
birthday noodles (for longevity)
pulled noodles / ramen
buldak ramen (a type of spicy Korean instant noodles)
instant noodles
HSK 2
board for making noodles or kneading bread dough
zhajiang mian, thick wheat noodles served with ground pork simmered in salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce)
udon noodles
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
(Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a filling in buns etc) / Taiwan pr. [rou4 sao4]
deep-fried noodle cake
noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter etc
braised noodles / stewed noodles
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
chopped fried noodles
(Tw) glass noodles; mung bean vermicelli
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  *粉* | 粉* | *粉
powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝) / to be a fan of
HSK 7-9
rice and noodles / rice flour / rice-flour noodles
noodle dishes (on menu)
knife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi, also known as 𰻞𰻞麵|𰻝𰻝
noodles
noodle stall or counter
a kind of rice-flour noodles from Yunnan province
a type of short and wide noodle
nabeyaki egg noodles
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
plain noodles in broth
buckwheat pudding (snack of buckwheat noodles with sauce)
luosifen (rice noodles served in a broth made from river snails and pork bones, often seasoned with stinky fermented bamboo shoots)
instant noodles
hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle
to make noodles by pulling out dough / hand-pulled noodles
Sichuan noodles with a spicy and numbing sauce
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
vegetable noodle dish
ta-a noodles or danzai noodles, popular snack originating from Tainan
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  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
oat noodles or flour
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  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
sweet potato or yam noodles
brand of Hong Kong instant noodles / also used as term for instant noodles in general
instant noodles (old)
(Cantonese cuisine) zhaliang, rice noodle rolls 腸粉|肠粉 stuffed with youtiao 油條|油条
misua; wheat vermicelli (very thin variety of wheat noodles used esp. in Fujian)
kway chap (Teochew noodle soup)
broad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi
noodles in meat soup
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  *糗* | 糗* | *糗
dry rations (for a journey) / (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking) / (coll.) embarrassing / embarrassment
"hele" noodles, a type of noodle made from buckwheat or sorghum flour
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  *糆* | 糆* | *糆
variant of 麵|面 / rice noodles / rice fragments


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