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The character 饺 is a phono-semantic compound. Its left radical, 饣, indicates the semantic category of food or eating, while the right component, 交, provides the phonetic sound and suggests a meaning of intersection. Its traditional form is 餃, which uses the unsimplified food radical 飠 but retains the same phonetic element. This character specifically denotes the Chinese dumpling, a dish made by folding a thin dough wrapper around a filling. The component 交 is often interpreted by culinary historians as representing the pinching or crossing of the dough edges to seal it, thus aligning the phonetic element with the preparation method.
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我们吃饺子。
妈妈包了白菜猪肉饺。
春节时全家一起包饺子。
煮饺子时要加三次冷水。
饺子是北方年夜饭的主角。
这家餐厅的煎饺非常有名。
素食者可以选择香菇素饺。
这家饺子馆的秘方传了三代。