燕麦, photo 1 of 1

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Cooking steel-cut oats for breakfast - 10
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Sage Ross
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燕麦

燕麥
yànmài
noun #16,548

Meanings

  1. 1 oats

About the ingredient

粮食 Grains and noodles

Oat grains, commonly sold rolled into flakes and cooked as porridge. The name appears on oat products: 燕麦片 are rolled oats and 燕麦奶 is oat milk.

Examples

HSK 4
Yànmài duì shēntǐ hěn yǒu hǎochù.
Oats are very good for your health.
HSK 6
Wǒ zǎocān xǐhuan chī yànmài zhōu.
I like to eat oatmeal for breakfast.

Tips

memory
燕 (swallow, the bird) + 麦 (wheat) - oats look like wheat that a swallow might eat.

Stroke Order

燕 yàn
麦 mài