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HSK
delicious / delicious food / delicacy
HSK 7-9
food prepared by stewing in soy sauce and spices
HSK 7-9
taste / flavor / feeling
HSK 7-9
fragrance / bouquet / sweet smell / CL:
HSK 7-9
persistently; stubbornly; blindly
HSK 7-9
odor; scent
HSK 7-9
a person's preferences / tastes (in food) / flavor
HSK 7-9
implicit charm in rhyme or sound / hinted appeal / interest
HSK 7-9
(idiom) thought-provoking; to provide food for thought
HSK 7-9
fun; interest; delight / taste; liking; preference
HSK 7-9
to call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
HSK 7-9
with keen interest (idiom) / with great pleasure / with gusto / eagerly
HSK 7-9
distinctive flavor / distinctive style
HSK 7-9
original; authentic
HSK 7-9
variant of 滷味|卤味
HSK 7-9
meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of
dull and insipid
umami, one of the five basic tastes (cookery)
tedious / dreary
to sample; to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste
sweetness
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  *味* | 味* | *味
taste / smell / (fig.) (noun suffix) feel / quality / sense / (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription
the five flavors, namely: sweet , sour , bitter , spicy hot , salty 鹹|咸 / all kinds of flavors
tedious
interest / taste
seasoning / condiment / flavoring / dressing / essences
to ruminate / to ponder subtleties
tasty / to be absorbed in sth / interesting
unpleasant odor
to think sth over
human warmth / friendliness / human touch
to be upset / to feel disgusted
flavorless; unpalatable / odorless / dull; uninteresting
Western taste / Western style
dull / insipid
lit. just the right flavor / just right / just the thing / excellent
acerbic (taste) / astringent
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
strange odor
to improve taste / to make sth palatable
smell of alcohol / flavoring of rum or other liquor in food / aroma or nose (of wine)
to become tainted with the smell of sth else / to pick up an odor
bad smell; foul odor
seafood
to lose flavor
tasty
game / wild animals and birds hunted for food or sport
feeling / flavor / sense
bitter taste / bitterness
to lose flavor
sweetness; sweet taste
flavorsome / (fig.) delightful / full of interest
siu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue (roasted meats, such as pork, duck or chicken, seasoned and cooked to a crispy, flavorful finish)
foul smell
to be jealous
profit-before-all-else mindset / money-grubbing
exotic delicacies / luxury foodstuff from distant locations
(Tw) traditional style; old-fashioned feel; flavor of yesteryear
aftertaste
monotonous / dull / tedious (idiom)
garlic odor
strong flavor (spicy, salty etc) / (of food) strongly flavored / (of a person) having a preference for strong flavors / (slang) intense / hardcore
authentic taste / plain cooked / natural flavor (without spices and seasonings)
Beijing flavor / Beijing style
to savor / to relish
Spring Festival atmosphere; festive ambience of Chinese New Year
to have quite a lasting charm
delicacy and fine taste (idiom); a wonderful treat
tasteless
Subway (fast food restaurant)
David (name)
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
tangerine flavor / yuri (genre of fiction featuring lesbian romantic or sexual relationships)
to be lacking in human character
circumstances / atmosphere / mood
insipid and tasteless (idiom)
smell of gunpowder / (fig.) combative tone / belligerence
tired of; fed up with; sick of / (of a person) to annoy; to be tiresome
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
whet the appetite
aftertaste / lingering impression
body odor / to appreciate a subtle taste


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