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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

年糕

niángāo

nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 年糕 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 年糕 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

没关系,我们可是有翻译年糕的。méi guān xì, wǒ men kě shì yǒu fān yì nián gāo de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

明明一开始觉得红色比紫色好看,但俗话说「别人的年糕看起来比较大」,今天反而觉得紫色比较好看。míng míng yī kāi shǐ jué de hóng sè bǐ zǐ sè hǎo kàn, dàn sú huà shuō 「bié rén de nián gāo kàn qǐ lái bǐ jiào dà」, jīn tiān fǎn ér jué de zǐ sè bǐ jiào hǎo kàn。

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COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 年糕.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 年糕.

Directly before

  • 翻译年糕1
  • 的年糕1

Directly after

  • 年糕的1
  • 年糕看起来1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 年糕

What does 年糕 mean in Chinese?

年糕 (niángāo) means nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour.

How do you pronounce 年糕?

年糕 is pronounced niángāo.

Is 年糕 an HSK word?

年糕 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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