Meanings
- A sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China.
[...] qingtuan, which are green sticky rice balls, are eaten.
2016 January 12, DK Travel, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Beijing and Shanghai, Penguin, →ISBN2 more examples
[...] qingtuan, which are sweet green rice dumplings made from glutinous rice colored with vegetable juices […]
2017 April 17, Paul Fieldhouse, Food, Feasts, and Faith, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 425[...] are used to make Chinese dishes such as qingtuan and dumplings.
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 161Synonyms: green dumpling
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China.
Origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 青團／青团 (qīngtuán) via Hanyu Pinyin.
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