馅

See also 餡

Translingual

shinjitai	餡
simplified	馅
traditional	餡

Etymology

Simplified from 餡 (飠 → 饣).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 饣 (“food”) + phonetic 臽 – a kind of food.

Han character

馅 (radical 184 饣+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓女弓竹X (NVNHX))

1. filling, stuffing
2. secret

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1427, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4461, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9985

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Cantonese

Hanzi

馅 (traditional 餡, Yale haam5)

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Mandarin

simpl.		馅
trad.		餡

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ɕiɛn˥˩ ]

Hanzi

馅 (traditional 餡, pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

Noun

馅 (simplified, Pinyin xiàn, traditional 餡)

1. (Advanced Mandarin) filling (for dumplings etc.)

References

• 1985, Jingrong (ed.) Wu, The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English), Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, ISBN 0471867969:
• 2000, Jingmin (ed.) Shao, HSK Dictionary (HSK汉语水平考试词典) (in Mandarin/English), Shanghai: Huadong Teachers College Publishers, ISBN 7561720785: