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.

Anagrams

• Pagano