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Usage of the character 馍

[饝]
  • variant of 饃/馍 (mó)
[饃]
  • small loaf of steamed bread
mómo
馍馍
[饃饃]
  • steamed bun
pàomó
泡馍
[泡饃]
  • meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine)
ròujiāmó
肉夹馍
[肉夾饃]
  • lit. meat wedged in steamed bun
  • "Chinese burger"
  • sliced meat sandwich popular in north China
chībiérénjiáoguòdemóbùxiāng
吃别人嚼过的馍不香
[吃別人嚼過的饃不香]
  • lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)
  • fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first