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siu mai

siu mai 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

Origin of siu mai

Borrowed from Cantonese 燒賣 /烧卖 (siu¹ maai⁶⁻²).

Questions about siu mai

What is siu mai the alternative form of?
Siu mai is the alternative form of shumai.

Words near siu mai in the dictionary

  1. Sitātapatrā
  2. SIU
  3. siu dai
  4. siu haau
  5. siu laap
  6. siu mai
  7. siu mei
  8. Siu Sai Wan
  9. siu yook
  10. siue
  11. siues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siu mai (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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