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9 strokes · radical 饣 · HSK 3 · traditional 餃
14 strokes · HSK 3 · simplified 饺
How it is used
Folded and eaten at midnight on new year's eve in the north, partly because the shape echoes the old ingot-shaped currency 元宝 — you are eating money.
Custom and usage, in the settings where it applies.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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dumpling
jiǎo — dumpling
Radical 饣 · 9 strokes · HSK 3 · traditional 餃
14 strokes · HSK 3 · simplified 饺
How it is usedFolded and eaten at midnight on new year's eve in the north, partly because the shape echoes the old ingot-shaped currency 元宝 — you are eating money.