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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

芥末

jièmo

mustard

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

mustard

02

wasabi

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 芥末 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 芥末 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

不要加太多芥末。bú yào jiā tài duō jiè mò。

Easy on the mustard.

吃午饭的时候,一坨芥末酱滴下来弄脏了我的领带。chī wǔ fàn de shí hòu, yī tuó jiè mò jiàng dī xià lái nòng zāng le wǒ de lǐng dài。

A drop of mustard fell and stained my tie during lunch.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 芥末.

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

Directly before

  • 一坨芥末1
  • 加太多芥末1

Directly after

  • 芥末酱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 芥末

What does 芥末 mean in Chinese?

芥末 (jièmo) means mustard.

How do you pronounce 芥末?

芥末 is pronounced jièmo.

Is 芥末 an HSK word?

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

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