gaau2餃饺
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Yalegáau
Definition
Dumpling; a food made with flour dough wrapped around a filling in a half-moon shape.
colloquialfooddim sum
How it's used
While 餃 refers to the general category of dumplings, it is rarely used as a standalone noun in daily speech. You will almost always hear it as a suffix for specific types, such as 蝦餃 or 菜肉餃. When ordering at a dim sum restaurant, people typically refer to the specific variety rather than using the generic term.
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zek3隻jekExamples
Shall we go to the restaurant to eat dumplings tonight?
The dumpling skins here are thin and the fillings are great, they are really delicious.
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Common phrases
shrimp dumpling
Common mistake
Learners often confuse 餃 with 雲吞. While both are dough-wrapped fillings, 雲吞 are typically smaller, served in soup with noodles, and have a distinct wrapper texture, whereas 餃 are larger and often steamed or pan-fried.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
