qingtuan
See also: qīngtuán
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 青團/青团 via Hanyu Pinyin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃɪŋ.twɑn/, /-tu.ɑn/
Noun
qingtuan (plural qingtuan)
- A sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China.
- 2016 January 12, DK Travel, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Beijing and Shanghai, Penguin, →ISBN:
- [...] qingtuan, which are green sticky rice balls, are eaten.
- 2017 April 17, Paul Fieldhouse, Food, Feasts, and Faith, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 425:
- [...] qingtuan, which are sweet green rice dumplings made from glutinous rice colored with vegetable juices […]
- 2023 January 4, Chunnian He, Da-Cheng Hao, Richard Spjut, Peigen Xiao, Plant-derived natural compounds in drug discovery: The prism perspective between plant phylogeny, chemical composition, and medicinal efficacy, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 161:
- [...] are used to make Chinese dishes such as qingtuan and dumplings.
Synonyms
- green dumpling
See also
- caozaiguo, the Taiwanese form
- kusa mochi, the Japanese form
Anagrams
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