团子

糰子
tuánzi
noun #31,344

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 dango (Japanese sweet rice dumpling)
  2. 2 a round dumpling/ball (of dough, rice, etc.)

Examples

Tā zuì ài chī Rìběn de sān sè tuánzi.
She loves Japanese tri-colored dango most.
Māma cuō le jǐ gè nuòmǐ tuánzi.
Mom rolled out a few sticky-rice dumplings.

Tips

culture
团子 in modern Mainland usage usually refers to Japanese dango () — small rice-flour balls skewered three or four to a stick, sometimes glazed with sweet soy (mitarashi) or topped with anko. The cherry-blossom-pink/white/green hanami-dango set is the iconic image. For traditional Chinese sticky-rice balls, 汤圆 (tāngyuán) and 糍粑 (cíbā) are more common.
memory
means "round/ball/lump," is a noun-suffix. So 团子 = literally "a little round thing." The same morphology gives 饺子 (dumpling), 包子 (steamed bun) — Chinese names food by shape plus .

Stroke Order

tuán