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元宵

yuán xiāo

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

元宵 (yuán xiāo) means "Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month; sticky rice dumplings". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 元宵 means

1. Lantern Festival
2. night of the 15th of the first lunar month
3. see also {元夜|yuán yè}
4. sticky rice dumplings

The characters in 元宵

• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 宵xiāonight

Example sentences

• 元宵节要猜灯谜。
  It is a must to guess lantern riddles during the Lantern Festival.

Words starting with 元宵

• 元宵节Yuán xiāo jiéLantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春节, on 15th of first month of…

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