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味道

wèi dao

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

味道 (wèi dao) means "flavor; taste". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 味道 means

1. flavor; taste
2. (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...)
3. (fig.) interest; delight
4. dialectsmell; odor

The characters in 味道

• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Example sentences

• 这茶味道不错。
  This tea tastes good.
• 禁果味道最好。
  Forbidden fruit tastes best.
• 这水的味道很难闻
  Zhè shuǐ de wèidao hěn nánwén
  This water has an ugly smell.
• 尝尝成功的味道。
  Taste the flavour of success.
• 这只火鸡味道很好。
  Zhè zhǐ huǒjī wèidao hěn hǎo.
  This turkey tastes good.
• 柠檬有独特的味道。
  Níngméng yǒu dútè de wèidao.
  The lemon has a flavor all of its own.

Where 味道 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food & flavors (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wèi dao correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.