ang pao
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.96 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of angpao.
Example Sentences
- "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."