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开味

kāi wèi

2-character word Traditional 開味

What 开味 means

1. whet the appetite

The characters in 开味

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel

Sounds the same

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

• 开胃to whet the appetite; appetizing; to amuse oneself at sb's expense

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