HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of ang pao | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Examples

“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.”
“The ang pao contains so many dozen pesos, because a dozen is a lucky number.”
“They did not have the ang pao culture, the “red-envelope” culture.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Learn this word in context

See ang pao used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course