肉夾饃

See also: 肉夹馍

Chinese

	meat; flesh
trad. (肉夾饃)	肉	夾饃
simp. (肉夹馍)	肉	夹馍
Literally: “meat sandwich”.

Wikipedia has articles on:

肉夾饃 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
肉夹馍 (Wu)
Roujiamo (English)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ròujiāmó, ròujiámó, ròugāmó

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄚㄇㄛˊ, ㄖㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄚˊ ㄇㄛˊ, ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄚㄇㄛˊ
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸zoq-ciaq-mu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ròujiāmó
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄚㄇㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ròujiamó
  - Wade–Giles: jou⁴-chia¹-mo²
  - Yale: ròu-jyā-mwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowjiamo
  - Palladius: жоуцзямо (žouczjamo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ròujiámó
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄐㄧㄚˊ ㄇㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ròujiámó
  - Wade–Giles: jou⁴-chia²-mo²
  - Yale: ròu-jyá-mwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowjyamo
  - Palladius: жоуцзямо (žouczjamo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ä³⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ròugāmó
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄚㄇㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ròugamó
  - Wade–Giles: jou⁴-ka¹-mo²
  - Yale: ròu-gā-mwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowgamo
  - Palladius: жоугамо (žougamo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ kä⁵⁵ mu̯ɔ³⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸zoq-ciaq-mu
  - MiniDict: zoh^入 ciah mu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵zoq-jiaq-mu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zoʔ¹¹ t͡ɕiaʔ²² mu²³/

Noun

肉夾饃

roujiamo (sliced meat sandwich popular in northern China)

Usage notes

Many erroneously interpret this term as 肉 (ròu, “meat”) + 夾／夹 (jiā, “to sandwich; to press from both sides”) + 饃／馍 (mó, “bun”), i.e. “the meat sandwiches the bun”, which is obviously the opposite of reality.

Descendants

→ English: roujiamo