饺子
jiǎo zi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 餃子
Dumplings: a thin flour wrapper folded around a filling of meat or vegetables, usually boiled. In the north they are the food of Chinese New Year's Eve. Making them is 包饺子 'to wrap dumplings', and they are counted with 个: 十个饺子.
Sủi cảo: vỏ bột mì mỏng gói nhân thịt hoặc rau, thường luộc chín. Ở miền Bắc Trung Quốc đây là món ăn của đêm Giao thừa. Làm sủi cảo là 包饺子 (gói sủi cảo); đếm bằng 个: 十个饺子 (mười cái sủi cảo).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 子 = tử · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “饺子” mean?
Dumplings: a thin flour wrapper folded around a filling of meat or vegetables, usually boiled. In the north they are the food of Chinese New Year's Eve. Making them is 包饺子 'to wrap dumplings', and they are counted with 个: 十个饺子.
Is “饺子” formal or informal?
饺子 is generally neutral.