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What is the chinese word for cream?

If you can, I would like, not a symbol, but maybe like, how it's spelled? Much Thanks!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    cream, as in "cream cheese", = "nai you", which is really the same word for "butter".

    cream, as in "first aid cream" = "gao yao".

    that's only in Mandarin.

    In other dialects, they have different ways of saying things.

    Source(s): I'm Chinese.
  • Pyro
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    nai you

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