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地瓜球
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Ianbu
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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IMG E0255 08
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Maypollyanna
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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公館夜市地瓜球 2019
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Maypollyanna
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cropped and resized

地瓜球

dìguāqiú
noun Not spicy

Measure Word

一份地瓜球 fèn

Meanings

  1. 1 sweet potato balls

About the dish

台湾菜 Taiwan · 小吃 Snack

Small balls of sweet potato mixed with tapioca or glutinous rice flour, deep-fried until puffed and hollow inside. Crisp outside, chewy within and lightly sweet. A Taiwanese night-market snack.

Examples

HSK 4
我们买了一大袋地瓜球，边走边吃。
Wǒmen mǎi le yí dà dài dìguāqiú, biān zǒu biān chī.
We bought a big bag of sweet potato balls and ate them as we walked.
HSK 6
地瓜球外面脆，里面是空的。
Dìguāqiú wàimian cuì, lǐmian shì kōng de.
Sweet potato balls are crisp outside and hollow inside.

Tips

usage
地瓜 means sweet potato here, as it does in Taiwan and Fujian. In Sichuan and Yunnan the same word means jicama.

Stroke Order

地 dì
瓜 guā
球 qiú