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汤圆 (tāng yuán): meaning and stroke order

汤圆 (tāng yuán) means boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival.

汤圆

Simplified
汤圆
Traditional
湯圓
Pinyin
tāng yuán

Stroke order of 汤圆

汤

  • Tāng surname Tang
  • shāng rushing current
  • tāng soup; hot or boiling water
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 湯

Stroke by stroke

圆

  • yuán circle; round
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 圓

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 汤圆

  1. tāng yuán Traditional 湯圓
    • boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival

Radicals of the characters

汤
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 6 strokes · 氵 on the left, 𠃓 on the right
圆
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 10 strokes · built from 囗 and 员

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

汤圆 in our stories

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  • 第二天一大早，苏菲就不见了。于航找了半天，才在厨房里找到她：她正跟邻居的阿婆学包汤圆，嘴里还一遍遍地念着什么。

    dì-èr tiān yídàzǎo Sūfēi jiù bú jiàn le Yú Háng zhǎo le bàntiān cái zài chúfáng lǐ zhǎodào tā tā zhèng gēn línjū de āpó xué bāo tāngyuán zuǐ lǐ hái yí biàn biàn de niàn zhe shénme

    Early the next morning Sophie had vanished. Yu Hang searched for ages before finding her in the kitchen, learning to make sweet rice dumplings from the old lady next door and repeating something under her breath.

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 汤圆

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).