粉
Meanings
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- 1.powder
- 2.cosmetic face powder
- 3.food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour
- 4.to turn to powder
- 5.(dialect) to whitewash
- 6.white
- 7.pink
- 8.(suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉丝[fěn sī])
- 9.to be a fan of
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Wiktionary
- 1.powder
- 2.face powder
- 3.flour
- 4.starchy
- 5.heroin
- 6.to powder
- 7.white; whitewashed
- 8.pink
- 9.to whitewash
- 10.food made from starch or flour (noodles, vermicelli, etc., usually not made from wheat flour)
- 11.cellophane noodles; bean or sweet potato noodles
- 12.powdery
- 13.fan; fanatic
- 14.follower on a social media platform; subscriber
- 15.to be a fan of (a person, a group, etc.); to admire
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pɯnʔ): semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns) – face powder made of rice. Compare Burmese ဖုန် (hpun, “dust”) (Schuessler, 2007). The earliest sense is believed to be "face powder". The term is then used for the color of this powder, "white", and later also the color of a face with this cosmetic, "pink". In early modern Chinese, the ancient "face powder" sense is partly reinforced by 粉底 (fěndǐ) (from English foundation).
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Components
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Example sentences
把麵粉和兩顆雞蛋混合。
Mix the flour with two eggs.
那個穿粉紅色衣服的女人是誰？
Who is the woman dressed in pink?
拿起這支粉筆，在黑板上寫字。
Take this piece of chalk and write on the blackboard.
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