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口味

kǒu wèi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

口味 (kǒu wèi) means "taste, flavor preference". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 口味 means

1. a person's preferences
2. tastes (in food)
3. flavor

The characters in 口味

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel

Example sentences

• 我的口味变重了。
  My taste has gotten heavier.
• 按口味加盐和胡椒粉。
  àn kǒuwèi jiā yán hé hújiāofěn.
  Add salt and pepper to taste.
• 这个酸奶是什么口味的？
  Zhège suānnǎi shì shénme kǒuwèi de?
  What flavour does this yoghurt have?
• 她的衣着不合我的口味。
  Tā de yīzhuó bù hé wǒ de kǒuwèi.
  Her dress is not to my taste.
• 台湾菜比印度菜口味淡。
  Taiwanese food is milder than Indian food.
• 他讨厌任何山核桃口味的东西。
  He hates pecan-flavored anything.

Words containing 口味

• 重口味zhòng kǒu wèistrong flavor (spicy, salty etc); (of food) strongly flavored…

Where 口味 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Household, Kitchen & Daily Life (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǒu wèi correctly.
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