CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

肉桂

ròuguì

Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 肉桂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 肉桂 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆喜欢喝加肉桂的茶。tāng mǔ xǐ huān hē jiā ròu guì de chá。

Tom likes tea with cinnamon.

大学时期，买零食很便宜。我常常会吃个咖哩牛肉包子或一个大肉桂卷，再喝杯茶。dà xué shí qī， mǎi líng shí hěn pián yi。 wǒ cháng cháng huì chī gè kā lī niú ròu bāo zi huò yí gè dà ròu guì juǎn， zài hē bēi chá。

During my university days, it was cheap then to buy a snack. I would munch on a curried beef bun or a big cinnamon roll and drink a cup of tea.

汤姆喜欢肉桂茶。tāng mǔ xǐ huān ròu guì chá。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 肉桂.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 肉桂.

Directly before

大肉桂1
喜欢肉桂1
喝加肉桂1

Directly after

肉桂卷1
肉桂茶1
肉桂的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 肉桂

What does 肉桂 mean in Chinese?

肉桂 (ròuguì) means Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia).

How do you pronounce 肉桂?

肉桂 is pronounced ròuguì.

Is 肉桂 an HSK word?

肉桂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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