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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *酸* | 酸* | *酸
sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid
HSK 4
(lit.) sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / (fig.) all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
sour cream
hot and sour sauce / chutney
(fig.) sour grapes
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
sweet and sour pork
if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
sweet and sour meat (pork)
hot and sour shredded potato
sour and sweet
the five flavors, namely: sweet , sour , bitter , spicy hot , salty 鹹|咸 / all kinds of flavors
sweet and sour
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *馊* | 馊* | *馊
rancid / soured (as food)
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
sour face / scowling face / CL: 張|张,
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
sour / acrid / (of a person) embittered
soured by the loss of one's hopes
a sour (type of cocktail) (loanword)
sweet and sour fish
sour / acid
binzi, a species of apple which is slightly sour and astringent; the tree that produces this apple
(milk) to turn sour / (meat, fish) to go off
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
sweet and sour meat (pork)
lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom) / fig. two hearts beating as one / name of a sweet and sour chicken wing dish
sour date (Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa)
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
sour / acrid / (fig.) bitter / painful
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
(literary) (of food) spoiled; sour; gone off
sweet and sour
sour expression on one's face
sour belching (medical term)
sweet and sour pork / also written 咕嚕肉|咕噜肉
sweet and sour pork
sweet and sour pork
belching of sour putrid gas (medical term)


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