百日礼

百日禮
bǎirìlǐ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 hundred-day celebration (for a newborn)
  2. 2 gift for a baby's 100-day milestone

Examples

Bǎobao de bǎirìlǐ shì yí duì jīn shǒuzhuó.
The baby's 100-day gift is a pair of gold bracelets.
Qīnqimen dōu lái cānjiā bǎirìlǐ.
All the relatives came to the 100-day celebration.

Tips

culture
(the 100th day) is another traditional infant milestone alongside 满月 (one month) and 周岁 (one year). The celebration traditionally involved family photo portraits and the gifting of silver or gold lockets with the inscription 长命百岁 ('may you live a hundred years'). Still a big event in Korea (baegil) and among overseas Chinese.

Stroke Order

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