Etymology

tangram

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Today it means: A Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs. Full definition →

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Possibly from Mandarin 唐 (táng, “of the Tang dynasty, by extension, Chinese”) + -gram.

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