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胃口

wèi kǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

胃口 (wèi kǒu) means "appetite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 胃口 means

1. appetite
2. liking

The characters in 胃口

• 胃wèistomach
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 好胃口！
  Bon appétit!
• 祝好胃口！
  Bon appétit!
• 祝你胃口好！
  Enjoy your meal!
• 他的胃口很好。
  Tā de wèikǒu hěn hǎo.
  He has a good appetite.
• 汤姆胃口很大。
  Tom has a big appetite.
• 我完全没有胃口。
  Wǒ wánquán méiyǒu wèikǒu.
  I can't bring myself to eat anything.

Words containing 胃口

• 倒胃口dǎo wèi kǒuto spoil one's appetite; fig. to get fed up with sth
• 吊胃口diào wèi kǒu(colloquial) to keep sb in suspense; to tantalize; to keep on tenterhooks
• 对胃口duì wèi kǒuto one's taste; to one's liking
• 碍胃口ài wèi kǒuto impair the appetite

Where 胃口 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wèi–wén (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 wèi kǒu correctly.
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