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饺子

jiǎo zi 3–5

dumpling; pot-sticker

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
饺 · 子
Syllables
2
jiǎo zi
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 11,834

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 饺jiǎo9 strokesHSK 2 traditional 餃stuffed dumplings
  • 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 这饺子是什么馅的啊？

    Zhè jiǎo zi shì shén me xiàn de a

    What is the filling in these dumplings?

  • 晚上我们去吃饺子，好吗？

    Wǎn shang wǒ men qù chī jiǎo zi hǎo ma

    We're going out for dumplings in the evening, all right?

  • 饺子是年夜饭桌上必不可少的。

    Jiǎo zi shì nián yè fàn zhuō shàng bì bù kě shǎo 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。

    Shuō míng nián yè fàn de jiǎo zi shì qīn rén tuán jù de xiàng zhēng

    This means that eating dumplings on New Year's eve is a symbol of family reunion.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 饺子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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