That really whets my appetite.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开胃
to whet the appetite
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to whet the appetite
02
appetizing
03
to amuse oneself at sb's expense
04
to tease
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开胃 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开胃 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开胃.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开胃.
Directly before
- 很开胃1
- 又开胃1
- 清爽开胃1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 开胃
What does 开胃 mean in Chinese?
开胃 (kāiwèi) means to whet the appetite.
How do you pronounce 开胃?
开胃 is pronounced kāiwèi.
Is 开胃 an HSK word?
开胃 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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