Explore Mooncake through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mooncake meaning
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
Using Mooncake
- The main meaning on this page is: A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
- In the example corpus, mooncake often appears in combinations such as: the mooncake, mooncake to, baked mooncake.
Context around Mooncake
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mooncake
- In this selection, "mooncake" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, baked, first, specific, festival, mold and hidden stand out and add context to how "mooncake" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include freshly baked mooncake out to and a specific mooncake mold the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mooncake" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mooncake
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Both Chinese companies price their mooncakes around the same as a traditional mooncake. (13 words)
Lau (fifth right) and other guests symbolically cut the mooncake to mark the celebration. (14 words)
Little Star’s mother sets a freshly baked mooncake out to cool on the night sky. (16 words)
Little Star’s mother sets a freshly baked mooncake out to cool on the night sky in this story that’s about the Chinese Autumn Moon festival, but is wonderful as a bedtime book all year long. (37 words)
Leeton's first Mooncake Festival will be taking place in Mountford Park on Saturday, September 21 from 4pm to 8pm and the entire community has been invited to take place. (30 words)
Many view the mooncake hidden message system that was used in the Ming revolution to be a precursor to the modern day fortune cookie. (24 words)
Example sentences (8)
Lau (fifth right) and other guests symbolically cut the mooncake to mark the celebration.
Leeton's first Mooncake Festival will be taking place in Mountford Park on Saturday, September 21 from 4pm to 8pm and the entire community has been invited to take place.
Besides needing a specific mooncake mold, the recipe I found required more than three kinds of flour.
Both Chinese companies price their mooncakes around the same as a traditional mooncake.
Kammy Kwan, a dedicated employee at Self-Help for the Elderly, spent her Sunday in a booth handing out mooncake to the attendees.
Little Star’s mother sets a freshly baked mooncake out to cool on the night sky in this story that’s about the Chinese Autumn Moon festival, but is wonderful as a bedtime book all year long.
Little Star’s mother sets a freshly baked mooncake out to cool on the night sky.
Many view the mooncake hidden message system that was used in the Ming revolution to be a precursor to the modern day fortune cookie.
Common combinations with mooncake
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mooncake 3×
- mooncake to 2×
- baked mooncake 2×
- mooncake out 2×