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Character decompostion

  1. 穴 xué, cave
  2. 言 yán, speech
  3. 幺 yāo, short thread
  4. 馬 mǎ, horse
  5. 長 cháng, long
  6. 月 yuè, moon
  7. 刂 dāo, knife
  8. 心 xīn, heart
  9. 辶 chuò, walk

Origin:

source: wikipedia The origins of the biang biang noodles and the character biáng are unclear. In one version of the story, the character biáng was invented by the Qin Dynasty Premier Li Si. However, since the character is not found in the Kangxi Dictionary, it may have been created much later than the time of Li Si. Similar characters were found used by Tiandihui.

In the 2007 season of the TVB show The Web (一網打盡), the show's producers tried to find the origin of the character by contacting university professors, but they could not verify the Li Si story or the origin of the character. It was concluded that the character was invented by a noodle shop.[clarification needed]

One theory is that there was no such character or meaning for this word in the beginning, and the word actually came from the sound people make from chewing the noodles, "biang biang biang".

A legend about a student fabricating a character for the noodle to get out of a biang biang noodle bill also is a commonly believed theory about the origin of the character.[5]