Please eat something.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
点菜
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 点菜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 点菜 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Would you like to order?
Waiter, I'd like to order.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 点菜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 点菜.
Directly before
- 我要点菜1
- 要点菜1
- 请吃点菜1
- 来点菜1
Directly after
- 点菜吗1
- 点菜吧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 点菜
What does 点菜 mean in Chinese?
点菜 (diǎncài) means to order dishes (in a restaurant).
How do you pronounce 点菜?
点菜 is pronounced diǎncài.
Is 点菜 an HSK word?
点菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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