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mooncake

Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival
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mooncake

Summary

mooncake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,689 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mooncake is a type of pastry[2].
  • mooncake is a type of Chinese bakery product[3].
  • mooncake is a type of bánh[4].
  • mooncake is a type of confection[5].
  • mooncake's Commons category is recorded as Mooncakes[6].
  • mooncake's Unicode character is recorded as 🥮[7].
  • mooncake's country of origin is recorded as People's Republic of China[8].
  • mooncake's country of origin is recorded as Taiwan[9].
  • mooncake's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mooncakes[10].
  • mooncake's Commons gallery is recorded as Mooncake[11].
  • mooncake's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malaysia[12].
  • mooncake's course is recorded as dessert[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include pastry[2], Chinese bakery product[3], bánh[4], and confection[5].

Why It Matters

mooncake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,689 views/month).[1] mooncake has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] mooncake is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

People's Republic of China Taiwan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . heritage.gov.my. Retrieved . heritage.gov.my. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Mooncakes
    Course → dessert
    Country of origin → —
    Country of origin → People's Republic of China, Taiwan
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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