"ang pao" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ang paos [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=ang pao}} ang pao (plural ang paos)
  1. Alternative form of angpao Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: angpao
    Sense id: en-ang_pao-en-noun-u~N8TUAu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
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    }
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        }
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Joy Manson, Festivals of Malaya, page 40:",
          "text": "But the practices governing the giving of ang paos defy simplification, and I heard only recently — in a Hokkien family — of a married daughter giving an ang pao to her parents, although they were by then grandparents many times over.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Pilipinas - Issues 8-11, page 36:",
          "text": "The ang pao contains so many dozen pesos, because a dozen is a lucky number.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ginandjar Kartasasmita, Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "They did not have the ang pao culture, the “red-envelope” culture.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of angpao"
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "ang pao"
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  ],
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries"
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        {
          "ref": "1965, Joy Manson, Festivals of Malaya, page 40:",
          "text": "But the practices governing the giving of ang paos defy simplification, and I heard only recently — in a Hokkien family — of a married daughter giving an ang pao to her parents, although they were by then grandparents many times over.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Pilipinas - Issues 8-11, page 36:",
          "text": "The ang pao contains so many dozen pesos, because a dozen is a lucky number.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ginandjar Kartasasmita, Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History, →ISBN, page 60:",
          "text": "They did not have the ang pao culture, the “red-envelope” culture.",
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        }
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