Etymology

mei fun

Today it means: Rice vermicelli, rice noodles, as used in East Asian (especially Cantonese) cooking. Full definition →

Cantonese 米粉
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Cantonese · borrowed from米粉
  2. English todaymei fun

From Cantonese 米粉 (mai⁵ fan²). Doublet of bee hoon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.