The curry was very delicious.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
咖哩
(Tw) (loanword) curry
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(Tw) (loanword) curry
02
colloquial pr. gālǐ or gālí
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 咖哩 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 咖哩 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I ate curry yesterday.
Tom likes hot curry.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 咖哩.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 咖哩.
Directly before
- 了咖哩3
- 的咖哩1
- 像咖哩1
- 辣咖哩1
- 个咖哩1
Directly after
- 咖哩挺1
- 咖哩这样1
- 咖哩饭1
- 咖哩非常1
- 咖哩牛肉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 咖哩
What does 咖哩 mean in Chinese?
咖哩 (kālǐ) means (Tw) (loanword) curry.
How do you pronounce 咖哩?
咖哩 is pronounced kālǐ.
Is 咖哩 an HSK word?
咖哩 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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