Name for mugs

Dec 15, 2010 1 Replies

Hi all,



In a French newsgroup (fr.soc.culture.chine), we wonder what is the Chinese name for mugs like these:

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Do you have an idea? Thanks beforehand,


I think the basic noun would be gàibēi (蓋杯.) The trouble is, this word is also applied to what would more narrowly be called a gàiwǎn. You can distinguish that lidded mug from a gàiwǎn by adding the attributive (more or less the same as an adjective) yǒubǐng (有柄), which means “having a handle”. But there may well be other ways of saying it...

/Lew

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