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har gow

Today it means: A type of traditional Cantonese shrimp dumpling; the outer skin is translucent and the filling is made of shrimp. Full definition →

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From Cantonese 蝦餃／虾饺 (haa1 gaau2).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.