Do you like cooking?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
做菜
to cook
IN A VIDEO做菜
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to cook
02
cooking
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 做菜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 做菜 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Mary doesn't use salt in her cooking.
I helped mom cook.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 做菜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 做菜.
Directly before
- 很会做菜2
- 我做菜2
- 不会做菜2
- 玛丽做菜1
- 喜欢做菜1
Directly after
- 做菜不1
- 做菜吗1
- 做菜时1
- 做菜是1
- 做菜的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 做菜
What does 做菜 mean in Chinese?
做菜 (zuòcài) means to cook.
How do you pronounce 做菜?
做菜 is pronounced zuòcài.
Is 做菜 an HSK word?
做菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.