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tangram

/ˈtænˌɡɹæm/

tangram noun: a Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs.

tangram: a Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be...
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Noun

tangram (plural tangrams)

  1. A Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs.

tangram meaning in Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese

tangram in Tamil

புதிர்வெட்டுக் கட்டம்

tangram in Thai

the Chinese puzzle
แทนแกรม tɛɛn-grɛɛm

tangram in Vietnamese

the Chinese puzzle
thất xảo bản

Forms of tangram

pluraltangrams

Origin of tangram

Possibly from Mandarin 唐 (táng, “of the Tang dynasty, by extension, Chinese”) + -gram.

Questions about tangram

What does tangram mean?
Tangram means a Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs.
What is tangram in Tamil?
Tangram in Tamil is புதிர்வெட்டுக் கட்டம். See Tangram meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tangram?
Tangram is a noun.
How do you pronounce tangram?
Tangram is pronounced /ˈtænˌɡɹæm/.
What is the plural of tangram?
The plural of tangram is tangrams.

Words near tangram in the dictionary

  1. tangor
  2. tangoreceptor
  3. tangoreceptors
  4. tangors
  5. tangos
  6. tangram
  7. tangrams
  8. tangs
  9. Tangsa
  10. Tangshan
  11. Tangsibji

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangram (page history and authors); tangram (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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