mooncake
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays…A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
» I bought some mooncake, do you want some?
Meaning
1 sensesA rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
Mondkuchen
лу́нный пиро́гlúnnyj piróg
Examples
3 sentencesI bought some mooncake, do you want some?
The mooncake is a kind of Chinese snack.
Mooncake is a Chinese pastry.
deMondkuchen ist ein chinesisches Gebäck. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From moon + cake, a calque of Mandarin 月餅 /月饼 (yuèbíng, “mooncake”), from 月 (yuè, “moon”)From moon + cake, a calque of Mandarin 月餅 /月饼 (yuèbíng, “mooncake”), from 月 (yuè, “moon”) + 餅 /饼 (bíng, “pastry; biscuit, cookie”), probably because the pastry’s traditional round shape resembles the full moon visible during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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