月餅 (jyut6 beng2 | yue4 bing3) : mooncake

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月餅

jyut6 beng2

yue4 bing3

mooncake, moon cake -- commonly eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節 / 八月十五)

Mooncakes contain one (or more, if you buy more expensive ones!) salted egg yolks in their centre, to symbolise the full moon.

Level: 2 Google Frequency: 2,500,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

月餅 / 月饼

This word has been viewed 8134 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tuan on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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月 jyut6 - moon; month
餅 beng2 - cake; biscuit

9 compounds containing this word:

傳統月餅 - traditional mooncakes
松子蓮蓉小月餅 - lotus paste and pine nut mini moon cakes
棗泥月餅 - date paste moon cakes
金黃蓮蓉月餅 - golden lotus paste moon cakes
冰皮月餅 - ice mooncake , ice-skin mooncake
五仁月餅 - five kernel mooncake
豆沙月餅 - bean paste mooncake
雙黃蓮蓉月餅 - double yolks lotus seed paste mooncake
番鬼佬月餅 - extremely bored

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*** The simplified equivalent of this word has not been verified by any editors, so it may not be fully accurate ***

* The simplified equivalent of this word has not been verified by any editors, so it may not be fully accurate *