There are a lot of people so today we've gone for buffet style.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
自助餐
buffet
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
buffet
02
self-service meal
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 自助餐 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自助餐 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
China's the only country where three people can eat at a mid-range hotpot buffet for only 5 RMB, but a hamburger costs five times as much. Figure that one out!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 自助餐.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自助餐.
Directly before
- 吃火锅自助餐1
- 采取自助餐1
Directly after
- 自助餐一共1
- 自助餐的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 自助餐
What does 自助餐 mean in Chinese?
自助餐 (zìzhùcān) means buffet.
How do you pronounce 自助餐?
自助餐 is pronounced zìzhùcān.
Is 自助餐 an HSK word?
自助餐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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