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饺

jiǎo

HSK 4 Character Traditional 餃

What 饺 means

1. dumplings with meat filling

Example sentences

• 我很想吃饺子。
  I feel like having some dumplings.
• 这饺子是什么馅的啊？
  Zhè jiǎozi shì shénme xiàn de a?
  What is the filling in these dumplings?
• 这饺子是什幺馅的啊？
  What is the filling in these dumplings?
• 晚上我们去吃饺子，好吗？
  We're going out for dumplings in the evening, all right?
• 饺子是年夜饭桌上必不可少的。
  Jiǎozi shì niányèfàn zhuō shàng bìbùkěshǎo de.
  Dumplings are essential at the New Year's Eve dinner table.
• 说明年夜饭的饺子是亲人团聚的象征。
  Shuōmíng niányèfàn de jiǎozi shì qīnrén tuánjù de xiàngzhēng.
  This means that eating dumplings on New Year's eve is a symbol of family reunion.

Words starting with 饺

• 饺子jiǎo zidumpling; pot-sticker
• 饺饵jiǎo ěrdumpling; pot-sticker; same as 饺子
• 饺子馆jiǎo zi guǎndumpling restaurant

Words containing 饺

• 水饺shuǐ jiǎoboiled dumpling (made by wrapping a pasta skin around a filling, like ravioli)
• 煎饺jiān jiǎofried dumpling
• 花饺huā jiǎodumpling
• 蒸饺zhēng jiǎosteamed dumpling
• 虾饺xiā jiǎoprawn dumplings
• 包饺子bāo jiǎo zito wrap jiaozi (dumplings or potstickers)
• 水晶饺shuǐ jīng jiǎocrystal dumpling, a type of dumpling popular in southern China and Taiwan, named for its…
• 水饺儿shuǐ jiǎo rerhua variant of 水饺

Characters built on 交

These share the phonetic component 交 (jiāo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 效xiàoto imitate (variant of 效
• 较jiào(bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to
• 校xiào(bound form) school; college; (bound form; military) field officer
• 胶jiāoto glue; glue; gum
• 郊jiāosuburbs; outskirts
• 绞jiǎoto twist (strands into a thread); to entangle; to wring
• 狡jiǎocrafty; cunning; sly
• 铰jiǎoscissors; to cut (with scissors)

Characters that look like 饺

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 侯hóumarquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位; nobleman…
• 狼lángwolf
• 弦xiánbow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring
• 帧zhēnframe; classifier for paintings etc; Taiwan pr. zhèng
• 铍píberyllium (chemistry)
• 钹bócymbals

Sounds the same

Read jiǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 角angle; corner; horn
• 脚foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object)
• 狡crafty; cunning; sly
• 缴to hand in; to hand over; to pay; to capture (weapons); to seize
• 搅to disturb; to annoy; to mix
• 侥by mere luck
• 绞to twist (strands into a thread); to entangle; to wring
• 皎bright; white
• 湫marsh
• 矫to correct; to rectify; to redress
• 剿to destroy; to extirpate
• 铰scissors; to cut (with scissors)