rice paper

See also: ricepaper

English

Vietnamese rice paper (sense 3)

Noun

rice paper (usually uncountable, plural rice papers)

1. A thin, fragile paper made from parts of the rice plant, used in artificial flowers and watercolour art.
   • 1990, Ultraviolet (lyrics and music), “Kites”, performed by Maria Nayler:

     I will scatter rice paper stars in your heaven
     If there are no stars ...
     If there are no stars ...

2. (loosely) Any similar paper made from a plant other than rice, such as bamboo or mulberry.
4. Edible sheets of rice often used in Vietnamese cooking; bánh tráng.

Derived terms

• rice-paper plant

Translations

paper made from parts of the rice plant

• Catalan: paper d'arròs m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 米紙／米纸 (mǐzhǐ)

• Estonian: riisipaber
• Finnish: riisipaperi
• French: papier de riz (fr) m
• German: Reispapier n
• Irish: ríspháipéar m
• Japanese: ライスペーパー (raisu pēpā)
• Korean: 반짱 (banjjang), 라이스 페이퍼 (raiseu peipeo)
• Polish: papier ryżowy m
• Russian: ри́совая бума́га f (rísovaja bumága)
• Swedish: rispapper n
• Ukrainian: рисовий папір m (rysovyj papir)
• Vietnamese: bánh tráng (vi)
• Welsh: papur reis m

edible sheets

• Polish: papier ryżowy m

See also

• Xuan paper