HSK 6 · Food

馅儿 xiànr “filling” in Chinese

Traditional 餡兒

What 馅儿 means

  1. filling
  2. stuffing

How to say 馅儿

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale馅xiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

馅儿 in a sentence

  1. 你喜欢吃什么馅儿的饺子？

    Nǐ xǐhuan chī shénme xiànr de jiǎozi?

    What filling do you like in your dumplings?

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这个包子是肉馅儿的。

    Zhè ge bāozi shì ròu xiànr de.

    This bun has a meat filling.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 馅儿 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 馅 (xiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
馅xiànfilling; stuffing
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shí
  • 臽pit · xiàn
The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 馅儿

馅 11 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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

Words related to 馅儿

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

More words: Food & Dining

清真qīngzhēn · halal涮火锅shuànhuǒguō · to eat hotpot素食sùshí · vegetarian food调料tiáoliào · seasoning腥xīng · fishy (smell or taste)酗酒xùjiǔ · to drink heavily饮食yǐnshí · diet油腻yóunì · greasy

FAQs

馅儿 (xiànr) means “filling” or “stuffing”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xiànr: xiàn with a 4th tone, then r with a neutral 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, 馅儿 is written 餡兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xianr with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 馅儿 from the suggestions. Typing xianr into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
馅儿 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.