How to say “Sticky rice dumpling (zongzi)” in Cantonese

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Glutinous rice with fillings wrapped in leaves and boiled for hours. Eaten around the Dragon Boat Festival.

The colour of each syllable is its tone — Cantonese has six, and the same sound in another tone is another word.

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