Let’s order the lobster! I’ve heard that’s the specialty dish here.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
招牌菜
signature dish
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
signature dish
02
a restaurant’s most famous dish
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 招牌菜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 招牌菜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 招牌菜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 招牌菜.
Directly before
- 的招牌菜2
Directly after
- 招牌菜了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 招牌菜
What does 招牌菜 mean in Chinese?
招牌菜 (zhāopáicài) means signature dish.
How do you pronounce 招牌菜?
招牌菜 is pronounced zhāopáicài.
Is 招牌菜 an HSK word?
招牌菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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