ang pao

English

Noun

ang pao (plural ang paos)

  1. Alternative form of angpao
    • 1965, Joy Manson, Festivals of Malaya, page 40:
      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.
    • 1987, Pilipinas - Issues 8-11, page 36:
      The ang pao contains so many dozen pesos, because a dozen is a lucky number.
    • 2013, Ginandjar Kartasasmita, Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History, →ISBN, page 60:
      They did not have the ang pao culture, the “red-envelope” culture.

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