ku ku jiao

9.9

A small dough pocket with meat or vegetables inside usually steamed

noun

: ku ku jiao

She served steaming hot ku ku jiao at the family gathering.

Examples

Many restaurants offer vegetarian versions of ku ku jiao on their menus.
Learning to make ku ku jiao can be a fun and rewarding cooking experience.
I love eating ku ku jiao on weekends.
Have you ever tried ku ku jiao?
Many restaurants offer vegetarian versions of ku ku jiao on their menus.
She served steaming hot ku ku jiao at the family gathering.
Learning to make ku ku jiao can be a fun and rewarding cooking experience.

Synonyms

dumpling

vsku ku jiao

41 1.8

A small piece of dough, plain or filled, cooked and eaten, often in soup

is a Chinese variety that wraps various fillings inside dough rather than generic forms

How Filled

ku ku jiao

9.9

pao

5 7.7

bun

164 1.0

Vienna roll

5.8

crescent roll

2 3.0

Surface Forms

ku ku jiao singular

ku ku jiaos plural

Morphology

ku + ku + jiao

The constituent items are not English lexical items (definitions are missing) and the string appears to be a language-specific food name; a B1 learner who only knew the literal constituents would not be able to infer 'a type of Chinese dumpling'. Proper names of dishes are largely arbitrary cross-linguistically and require lexical learning rather than compositional inference.

Etymology

The noun ku ku jiao may come from the small sound cooks made when they pinched the dough, with ku ku as the sound and jiao meaning 'dumpling'. So the name gives a clear image of a little wrapped snack and today it means 'a type of dumpling'.