Etymology

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Today it means: A dice game of six dice and a bowl traditionally played as a social event during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Southern Fujian, especially in Xiamen and Kinmen, and among the Chinese Filipino community in the Philippines. Full definition →

Mandarin 博餅 /博饼
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from博餅 /博饼
  2. English todayBo Bing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 博餅 /博饼 (bóbǐng, literally “to gamble for pastry”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.