For pronunciation and definitions of はなよりだんご – see the following entry.
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【花より団子】
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- [proverb] (idiomatic): "dango instead of flowers", substance over form → indicating a preference for the practical over the purely aesthetic, preferring dango (which are tasty and nutritious) rather than flowers (which are merely decorative)
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(This term, はなよりだんご, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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