xiàn

filling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)

food (饣) + pit/hollow (臽) = filling tucked inside

臽 depicts a person falling into a pit or trap — a hollow, sunken space. Combined with the food radical, it evokes something tucked inside food, hidden in a cavity.

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A person falling into a pitSemantic
Food (variant of 食)Semantic

这个包子的是猪肉的。

zhè ge bāo zi de xiàn shì zhū ròu de。

the filling of this steamed bun is pork.

她在厨房里准备饺子的

tā zài chú fáng lǐ zhǔn bèi jiǎo zi de xiàn。

she is in the kitchen preparing the stuffing for the dumplings.

Words with 馅

苹果馅饼

píng guǒ xiàn bǐng

apple pie

露馅

lòu xiàn

to leak

露馅儿

lòu xiàn r

erhua variant of 露餡|露馅[lou4 xian4]

馅儿

xiàn r

erhua variant of 餡|馅[xian4]

馅儿饼

xiàn r bǐng

erhua variant of 餡餅|馅饼[xian4 bing3]

馅料

xiàn liào

filling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)

馅饼

xiàn bǐng

meat pie

内馅

nèi xiàn

(Tw) filling; stuffing (in pastries, dumplings etc)

天上不会掉馅饼

tiān shàng bù huì diào xiàn bǐng

there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)

天上掉馅饼

tiān shàng diào xiàn bǐng

a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom)

夹馅

jiā xiàn

stuffed (of food)

果馅饼

guǒ xiàn bǐng

tart

More characters with 饣