Category:English terms calqued from Mandarin

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  3. potsticker
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  5. realgar wine
  6. osmanthus wine
  7. Hami melon
  8. Mongolian barbecue
  9. princess sickness
  10. Central Plain

English terms that were calqued from Mandarin, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Mandarin terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|cmn|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.