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饺

jiǎo — dumpling

9 strokes · radical 饣 · HSK 3 · traditional 餃

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Where it comes from

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.

Words it turns up in

饺子

Lists it belongs to

春节年红 Spring Festival characters 20 characters

Characters near this one

饭 fàn 的 de 和 hé 学 xué 朋 péng 明 míng 国 guó 京 jīng