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滋味

zī wèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

滋味 (zī wèi) means "taste; flavor; feeling". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 滋味 means

1. taste
2. flavor
3. feeling

The characters in 滋味

• 滋zīto grow; to nourish; to increase
• 味wèitaste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel

Example sentences

• 它的滋味真的很好。
  Tā de zīwèi zhēn de hěn hǎo.
  It tastes really good.
• 你知道悲伤的滋味么？
  Nǐ zhīdào bēishāng de zīwèi me?
  Do you know what sadness feels like?
• 我不知道乡愁的滋味。
  I don't know what it is to be homesick.
• 你知道悲伤的滋味幺？
  Do you know what sadness feels like?
• 你知不知道思念的滋味？
  Do you know the taste of thought?
• 你尝过真正饥饿的滋味吗？
  Nǐ cháng guo zhēnzhèng jī'è de zīwèi ma?
  Do you know what it is like to be really hungry?

Words containing 滋味

• 不是滋味bù shì zī wèito be upset; to feel disgusted

Where 滋味 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuàng–zī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zī wèi correctly.
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