wai1 faa3威化
Jyutpingwai1 faa3
Yalewāi fa
Definition
Wafer; a crisp, thin, typically rectangular biscuit with a grid pattern and sweet cream filling.
colloquialfood
How it's used
People often add the word 餅 after 威化 to clarify that it is a biscuit, as 威化 alone can sometimes sound like a loanword for a specific brand or texture. It is almost exclusively used to describe the light, layered, crispy snack with cream filling rather than any other type of biscuit.
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baau1包bāuExamples
This pack of wafers is very crispy, do you want some?
When I was little, I loved buying wafers as a snack.
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