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汤圆

tāng yuán

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 湯圓

汤圆 (tāng yuán) means "boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 汤圆 means

1. boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival

The characters in 汤圆

• 汤tāngsoup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs
• 圆yuáncircle; round; circular

Sounds the same

Read tāng yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 汤原see 汤原县

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