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Word · NounTraditional餹

sugar; variant of 糖

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Meanings

1 sense · 2 examples
1.

noun

sugar; sweets; candy

archaic

Variant character of 糖, found in classical texts and historical documents. Rarely used in modern standard Chinese.

Táng餹
shuāng霜
jí即
táng糖
shuāng霜
 ，
yě也
jiù就
shì是
xiàn现
zài在
de的
bīng冰
táng糖
 。

Tangshuang (餹霜) means sugar frost, which is what we now call rock sugar.

Gǔ古
jí籍
zhōng中
cháng常
yǐ以
 “
táng餹
 ”
dài代
 “
táng糖
 ”
 。

Ancient texts often used 'tang' (餹) in place of 'tang' (糖).