蟠桃 (pántáo) · flat peach, Saturn peach, peach of immortality

Measure Word

一个蟠桃 gè

Meanings

1 flat peach
2 Saturn peach
3 peach of immortality

About the ingredient

水果 Fruit · In season: summer

A peach shaped like a squashed doughnut, with a sunken middle and sweet, fragrant, juicy flesh, white or yellow, around a flattened stone. Eaten fresh.

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Examples

HSK 4

超市里的蟠桃又香又甜。

Chāoshì lǐ de pántáo yòu xiāng yòu tián.

The flat peaches at the supermarket are fragrant and sweet.

HSK 5

传说天上有的蟠桃要三千年才熟一次，吃了能长生不老。

Chuánshuō tiānshàng yǒude pántáo yào sānqiān nián cái shú yí cì, chī le néng chángshēng-bùlǎo.

Legend has it that some peaches of heaven take three thousand years to ripen, and eating one makes you immortal.

HSK 6

孙悟空偷吃了王母娘娘的蟠桃。

Sūn Wùkōng tōuchī le Wángmǔ Niángniang de pántáo.

Sun Wukong secretly ate the Queen Mother's peaches of immortality.

Tips

culture

In 西游记, 孙悟空 is put in charge of the heavenly peach orchard, eats the ripest fruit and wrecks the 蟠桃会, the Queen Mother's peach banquet for the immortals. That is how his rampage through heaven, 大闹天宫, begins.