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莜麦

莜麥

yóumài

noun

Meanings

1 naked oat

About the ingredient

粮食 Grains and noodles

Naked oats, whose grains come free of the husk. The grain is milled into 莜面 for noodles, and also goes into porridge, flatbreads and oat flakes. It is not the leaf lettuce 油麦菜.

Also called 裸燕麦

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

莜麦能在寒冷干旱的高原上生长。

Yóumài néng zài hánlěng gānhàn de gāoyuán shàng shēngzhǎng.

Naked oats can grow on cold, dry plateaus.

HSK 7-9

山西人爱吃用莜麦做的莜面。

Shānxīrén ài chī yòng yóumài zuò de yóumiàn.

People in Shanxi love youmian, a noodle dough made from naked oats.

Tips

usage

Also called 裸燕麦, 'naked oat', because the grain threshes free of its husk, unlike common oats. It is grown mainly on the cold uplands of Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia.

Stroke Order

莜 yóu

麦 mài