馅儿饼 (xiàn r bǐng) — meat pie, stuffed pie

Definition

noun
meat piestuffed pie
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 馅儿饼，。
    Zhè jiā diàn de xiàn r bǐng fēi cháng yǒu míng, hěn duō rén zhuān mén lái pǐn cháng.
    This shop's meat pies are very famous; many people come specifically to taste them.
  • 馅儿饼，。
    Mā ma zuò de xiàn r bǐng xiàn r duō pí báo, tè bié hǎo chī.
    The meat pies my mom makes have lots of filling and thin crust — especially delicious.
  • 馅儿饼。
    Tā xué huì le zhì zuò chuán tǒng xiàn r bǐng de gōng yì.
    He learned the craft of making traditional meat pies.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

馅儿stuffing
馅xiànstuffing儿érer
后缀Suffix
饼bǐngpie

馅儿 gives the filling, and 饼 is the flatbread or pie; together they name a pie filled with stuffing.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 餡; 馅 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
飠Written in full as食shífood
Sound part声符shēngfú
臽
臽xiàn餡xiàn
Same sound today

For 馅, the traditional form 餡 pairs 飠 (food) with 臽 as the sound part.

Open 馅 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 儿 is a simple drawing of a standing person, used as an alternate form of the character for person.

Open 儿 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 餅; 饼 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
飠Written in full as食shífood
Sound part声符shēngfú
并
并bìng餅bǐng
Same sound today

The traditional form 餅 pairs 飠 (food) with 并 for the sound; the simplified 饼 is a shorthand.

Open 饼 →

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