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饺, the simplified form of 餃, is a phonosemantic compound. The left-side radical 饣, a simplified version of the food radical 飠, indicates that the character pertains to food, while the right-side component 交 provides its pronunciation. The character denotes the traditional Chinese dumpling: a thin sheet of dough folded around a filling of meat or vegetables and sealed by pinching the edges together. The phonetic 交 also means 'to cross' or 'intersect', which aptly reflects the crossing and pressing motions used to close the dumpling, although its role in the character is phonetic rather than semantic. The unsimplified character 餃 retains the full 飠 radical but uses the same 交 component.
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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。
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