"ang pow" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1996, Su Kim Lee, Malaysian flavours: insights into things Malaysian, page 88:",
          "text": "However, if you come across kids of the really mercenary kind, then you wish you could snatch back the ang pow from their greedy hands. A kid is supposed to receive an ang pow, thank the giver, then put away his ang pow immediately.",
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          "ref": "2010, Ooi Keat Gin, The A to Z of Malaysia, →ISBN, page 19:",
          "text": "A traditional and popular gift, ang pow is given at a house warming, during the tea ceremony to a bridal couple, at a farewell, on a birthday, in return for a favor or a donation, and on other occasions. A symbolic ang pow is given to a prospective client by a coffin maker upon the former exiting his premises, regardless of any transaction.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bryan Paul Lai, The Joy of Life: The Land Below The Wind, →ISBN, page 87:",
          "text": "After the scrumptious dinner, which I had never before eaten so much, came to an end, it was customary for the parents to hand out red packages or ang pow to the children and unmarried adults.",
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          "ref": "2016, Wong Chai Kee, Even When She Forgot My Name: Love, Life and My Mother’s Alzheimer’s, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I wrote the amount on each ang pow. When Chinese New Year came, just after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, I thought all Ma could do was hand out the ang pows.",
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        "Synonym of red envelope (“hongbao”)"
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  "word": "ang pow"
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          "ref": "1996, Su Kim Lee, Malaysian flavours: insights into things Malaysian, page 88:",
          "text": "However, if you come across kids of the really mercenary kind, then you wish you could snatch back the ang pow from their greedy hands. A kid is supposed to receive an ang pow, thank the giver, then put away his ang pow immediately.",
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          "text": "A traditional and popular gift, ang pow is given at a house warming, during the tea ceremony to a bridal couple, at a farewell, on a birthday, in return for a favor or a donation, and on other occasions. A symbolic ang pow is given to a prospective client by a coffin maker upon the former exiting his premises, regardless of any transaction.",
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          "text": "After the scrumptious dinner, which I had never before eaten so much, came to an end, it was customary for the parents to hand out red packages or ang pow to the children and unmarried adults.",
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          "text": "I wrote the amount on each ang pow. When Chinese New Year came, just after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, I thought all Ma could do was hand out the ang pows.",
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