HSK 3 · Food

面包 miànbāo “bread” in Chinese

Traditional 麵包

What 面包 means

  1. bread

Measure word 片 piàn or 块 kuài · 一片面包 yí piàn miànbāo

How to say 面包

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale面miàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale包bāo1st tone, high and level

面包 in a sentence

  1. 比起面包，我更喜欢米饭。

    Bǐqǐ miànbāo, wǒ gèng xǐhuan mǐfàn.

    I prefer rice to bread.

    Sentence #8761470 from Tatoeba

  2. 你午饭想吃面包吗？

    Nǐ wǔfàn xiǎng chī miànbāo ma?

    Would you like some bread for lunch?

    Sentence #353587 from Tatoeba

  3. 面包不新鲜。

    Miànbāo bù xīnxiān.

    The bread isn’t fresh.

    Sentence #7771872 from Tatoeba

How 面包 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 面 (miàn) drawn as one shape
面miànface

面 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a face inside its outline.

The character 包 (bāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
包bāoto cover
  • 勹wrap · bāo
  • 巳part of the character

Memory aidWrapping 勹 around a baby 巳: to wrap.

How to write 面包

面 9 strokes · 包 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

面包 (miànbāo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 面包 (miànbāo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 面包

Words with 面

前面qiánmiàn · front后面hòumiàn · back面条儿miàntiáor · noodles面miàn · noodles面条miàntiáo · noodles上面shàngmiàn · above下面xiàmiàn · below里面lǐmiàn · inside外面wàimiàn · outside见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody

Words with 包

书包shūbāo · schoolbag包bāo · to cover包子bāozi · bao (steamed stuffed bun)包括bāokuò · to comprise包裹bāoguǒ · parcel包含bāohán · to contain包围bāowéi · to surround打包dǎbāo · to pack up承包chéngbāo · to contract包庇bāobì · to shield (wrongdoing)

More words: Food & Drink

菜单càidān · menu蛋糕dàngāo · cake饿è · hungry渴kě · thirsty啤酒píjiǔ · beer甜tián · sweet香蕉xiāngjiāo · banana饮料yǐnliào · beverage

FAQs

面包 (miànbāo) means “bread”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it miànbāo: miàn with a 4th tone, then bāo with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 面包 is written 麵包. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 片 (piàn) or 块 (kuài). For example, one bread is 一片面包 (yí piàn miànbāo).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mianbao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 面包 from the suggestions. Typing mianbao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
面包 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.