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qingtuan

Today it means: A sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China. Full definition →

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Borrowed from Mandarin 青團／青团 (qīngtuán) via Hanyu Pinyin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.