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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RED PACKET

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Red packet is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RED PACKET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

red packet

Red envelope

In Chinese and other Asian societies, a red envelope or red packet is a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions such as weddings, the birth of a baby or graduation. In addition to China, similar customs exist in Japan, Korea and many other countries where a sizeable ethnic Chinese population is present.

Definition of red packet in the English dictionary

The definition of red packet in the dictionary is a sum of money folded inside red paper and given at the Chinese New Year to unmarried younger relatives. Other definition of red packet is such a gift given at Chinese weddings by the parents to the bride and groom and by the bride and groom to unmarried younger relatives.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RED PACKET

red man
red matipo
red meat
red men
red mercury
red mist
red mullet
red ned
Red Nose Day
red oak
red ochre
red osier
red pepper
red pine
Red Planet
Red Poll
Red Polled
red puccoon
red rag
red rattle

WORDS THAT END LIKE RED PACKET

Barbour jacket
biker jacket
bomber jacket
bracket
denim jacket
dinner jacket
dust jacket
flak jacket
income bracket
jacket
packet
placket
pocket
price bracket
protection racket
racket
riding jacket
smoking jacket
upper income bracket
water jacket
yellow jacket

Synonyms and antonyms of red packet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «red packet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RED PACKET

Find out the translation of red packet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of red packet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «red packet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

红包
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paquete rojo
570 millions of speakers

English

red packet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लाल पैकेट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حزمة الحمراء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

красный пакет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pacote vermelho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লাল প্যাকেট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paquet rouge
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paket merah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rote Paket
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

赤パケット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빨간 패킷
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paket abang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gói màu đỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிவப்பு பாக்கெட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लाल पॅकेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kırmızı paket
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pacchetto rosso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czerwone pakiet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

червоний пакет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pachet roșu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόκκινο πακέτο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rooi pakkie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rött paket
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rød pakke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of red packet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RED PACKET»

The term «red packet» is normally little used and occupies the 113.127 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RED PACKET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about red packet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RED PACKET»

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Quality of Future Internet Services: First COST 263 ...
the source S(2,0) emits a red packet at time t1 = T(1) + 1, then it fully arrives at node n(2,1) at time t2 = T(1) + 2, and finds the queue equal to 2hk − 1 blue packets (since 2hk packets have arrived and one has left in the previous time slot .
Jon Crowcroft, James Roberts, Michael I. Smirnov, 2000
2
Annemann's Card Magic
marker to identify the red packet. Another elastic is snapped about the packet lengthwise, so that now an elastic band encircles it in both directions, and it is replaced face outwards in its stand. The same procedure is now gone through with the ...
Theodore Annemann, 1977
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QoS in Packet Networks
A red packet always remains red: it can never be “promoted” to higher grades. For red packets, therefore, the token buckets are irrelevant. A yellow packet is re- marked (or downgraded) red if both. IP QoS Generic Functional Requirements ...
Kun I. Park, 2006
4
Chinatown Gun
Uncle Miao's blame scared Yellow Hair into a cold sweat. Trembling all over, he mumbled, “Yes, oh no, but—” “Hey! Hey! What—what do you want?” Uncle Miao tried hard to control his anger and asked, “Do you want another red packet?” “No!
Kun Lee, 2013
5
Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
Take the red packet and in the process transfer the palmed V4 to the top. Then place this packet face down in the left hand. Place the black packet face up on top of the red packet, and remark, "We should check to see if this is a full pack.
Karl Fulves, Charles Thorton Jordan, 1992
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China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs
This is called a red packet (hongbao 紅包), yasui qian 压岁钱 or laisi 利是 in Cantonese). The red of the packet symbolizes good luck, and the amount of money in the packet is often some lucky number. As you may have guessed, a number ...
Ju Brown, 2006
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High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications: 7th IEEE ...
In RED-PD high-bandwidth flows are identified using the RED packet drop history and flows above a configured target bandwidth are monitored. RED-PD controls the throughput of the monitored flows by probabilistically dropping packets ...
Zoubir Mammeri, Pascal Lorenz, 2004
8
Corpus-based Studies in English: Papers from the Seventeenth ...
On these occasions, I always gave her a [[red packet]] of two hundred dollars, knowing that . . . 2 On January 6, 1982, she gave me a [[red packet]] containing two dollars through my mother 3. ...the age of ninety-seven. I still treasure the [[ red ...
Magnus Ljung, 1997
9
Advances in Network Information Theory
For example, suppose that there are two flows, say RED and GREEN flows, traversing a router and the router records the following sequence of 15 packets going through it: a RED packet, followed by 2 GREEN packets, followed by another ...
Piyush Gupta, Gerhard Kramer, and Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden
10
Universal Multiservice Networks: Third European Conference, ...
Upon arrival of a red packet, DRIO takes effect when the average queue length falls between minth and maxth RIO thresholds. In DRIO, a history list of the last red packets seen is maintained. If the history list is not full, the red packet is added ...
Mário Marques Freire, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RED PACKET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term red packet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Xinhua in two minds over virtual red packet craze
Whether digital red packets will become a new "tradition" to celebrate the Lunar New Year has become a talking point among mainland state media. The digital ... «South China Morning Post, Feb 15»
2
Weekend Fun: Lifebuoy owns the 'red packet' this Chinese New Year
An campaign conceptualised by BBH Shanghai saw Lifebuoy creating 'red packets' (hong bao), in which elders offer money to their loved ones as part of the ... «Campaign India, Feb 15»
3
Lifebuoy owns the 'red packet' this Chinese New Year
An campaign conceptualised by BBH Shanghai saw Lifebuoy creating 'red packets' (hong bao), in which elders offer money to their loved ones as part of the ... «Campaign Middle East, Feb 15»
4
Chinese New Year 2015: Alibaba challenges Tencent WeChat in …
The tradition of giving "hong bao" - red packets filled with money - is an important Chinese custom, and the monetary gifts are usually given by married couples ... «International Business Times UK, Feb 15»
5
'Hygienic' red packet turns into soap under water
RedPacketLifebuoy-thumb-300x364-176193 PETALING JAYA: A newly designed angpow packet lets you clean up after receiving money that has exchanged ... «Free Malaysia Today, Feb 15»
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This Lunar New Year, let's go green on lucky red packets
But as the red packets form an integral part of Lunar New Year celebrations across the globe, the demand can be huge. In Hong Kong, an estimated HK$10 ... «South China Morning Post, Feb 15»
7
'Good as new' banknotes gaining favour for Lunar New Year red
To greet the Lunar New Year, most people would want things clean and new; homes spruced up, new clothes and notes that go into the red packets. According ... «South China Morning Post, Feb 15»
8
Jack Ma tells Alibaba staffers: no red packets this year
Chinese companies typically hand out red envelopes -- known as hongbao ... “The reason for not distributing red envelopes is that in the past year, Alibaba ... «MarketWatch, Feb 15»
9
Tech puts new spin on Chinese New Year tradition
With Chinese New Year just a week away, 26-year-old Huang Jing has started exchanging "red packets" with her close friends, even though she's single. «CNBC, Feb 15»
10
Red Packet Blues
Cash-stuffed red envelopes will be handed out by bosses to employees, parents to kids, and elders to the young. About 2.8 billion trips will be made, including ... «Bloomberg, Feb 15»

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