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味觉

wèi jué

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 味覺

味觉 (wèi jué) means "sense of taste; gustation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 味觉 means

1. sense of taste
2. gustation

The characters in 味觉

• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 觉juéto feel; to find that; thinking

Example sentences

• 吸血鬼有味觉吗？
  Xīxuèguǐ yǒu wèijué ma?
  Do vampires have a sense of taste?
• 舌头和上颚都是味觉器官。
  Shétou hé shàng'è dōu shì wèijué qìguān.
  The tongue and the palate are the taste organs.

Words starting with 味觉

• 味觉迟钝wèi jué chí dùnamblygeustia; loss of food taste

Sounds the same

Read wèi jué, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 未决as yet undecided; unsolved; still outstanding

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