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Meaning of ang pao | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Noun. [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.
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