qingtuan

See also: qīngtuán

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 青團／青团 via Hanyu Pinyin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃɪŋ.twɑn/, /-tu.ɑn/

Noun

qingtuan (plural qingtuan)

1. A sweet rice-flour ball, usually filled with red bean paste, traditionally consumed on Tomb Sweeping Day in China.
   • 2016 January 12, DK Travel, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Beijing and Shanghai, Penguin, →ISBN:

     [...] qingtuan, which are green sticky rice balls, are eaten.

   • 2017 April 17, Paul Fieldhouse, Food, Feasts, and Faith, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 425:

     [...] qingtuan, which are sweet green rice dumplings made from glutinous rice colored with vegetable juices  […]

   • 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 161:

     [...] are used to make Chinese dishes such as qingtuan and dumplings.

Synonyms

• green dumpling

See also

• caozaiguo, the Taiwanese form
• kusa mochi, the Japanese form

Anagrams

• quanting