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shūmai

shūmai is the alternative form of shumai.

Meaning of shumai

Noun

shumai (plural shumai or shumais)

  1. (Canada, US) A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.
    • Hot and sour soup, shrimp toast, shumai, General Tso’s chicken, pork with garlic sauce, beef with asparagus, hot and spicy shrimp, sushi deluxe, cheesecake, fried bananas, litchi sherbet.2009 May 31, Joanne Starkey, “Old-School Chinese With Efforts at Fusion”, in New York Times

Forms of shūmai

pluralshūmai

Origin of shūmai

From Japanese 焼売 (shūmai).

Questions about shūmai

What is shūmai the alternative form of?
Shūmai is the alternative form of shumai.

Words near shūmai in the dictionary

  1. shōjo
  2. shōnen
  3. shōnen-ai
  4. Shōwa
  5. shōyu
  6. shūmai
  7. Shūnan
  8. si
  9. SI joint
  10. SI joints
  11. si liao

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shūmai (page history and authors); shumai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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