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)

  1. 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

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