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shaomai

shaomai 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 shaomai

pluralshaomai

Origin of shaomai

Borrowed from Mandarin 燒賣 /烧卖 (shāomài).

Questions about shaomai

What is shaomai the alternative form of?
Shaomai is the alternative form of shumai.

Words near shaomai in the dictionary

  1. Shaohsing
  2. shaojiu
  3. Shaokuan
  4. Shaolin
  5. Shaoling
  6. shaomai
  7. Shaos
  8. Shaoshan
  9. Shaotran
  10. shaowei
  11. Shaoxing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shaomai (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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