rice cooker
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesnoun
rice cooker
dialectA dialectal term, primarily used in certain southern Chinese regions (e.g., Guangdong, Guangxi) and Taiwan. '包' in this context is a colloquial measure word/term for an appliance, similar to '鍋' (pot). It is less common in standard Mandarin.
Wǒ我
mǎi买
le了
gè个
xīn新
de的
diàn电
fàn饭
bāo包
。
I bought a new rice cooker.
Yòng用
zhè这
ge个
diàn电
fàn饭
bāo包
zhǔ煮
fàn饭
hěn很
kuài快
。
Cooking rice with this rice cooker is very fast.
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Guǎng广
dōng东
rén人
yǒu有
shí时
bǎ把
diàn电
fàn饭
guō锅
jiào叫
zuò做
diàn电
fàn饭
bāo包
。
People from Guangdong sometimes call a rice cooker 'diànfànbāo'.