CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

蚝油

háoyóu

oyster sauce

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

oyster sauce

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 蚝油 actually appears in real sentences.

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叫个清蒸鲈鱼好呢，还是蚝油牛肉好？jiào gè qīng zhēng lú yú hǎo ne， hái shì háo yóu niú ròu hǎo？

Should we order the steamed perch or the beef with oyster sauce?

今天是 2013 年 9 月 4 日。有人说世界语就像西班牙语或义大利语。其实，这些语言就像杏仁牛轧糖或巧克力蛋糕一样甜美。世界语的味道更微妙，就像豆腐、萝卜或蚝油蒸蔬菜的味道。世界语比国际语、西班牙语、义大利语、法语或葡萄牙语更适合中部地区的思维。它确实更适合东方人的思维。jīn tiān shì 2013 nián 9 yuè 4 rì。 yǒu rén shuō shì jiè yǔ jiù xiàng xī bān yá yǔ huò yì dà lì yǔ。 qí shí， zhè xiē yǔ yán jiù xiàng xìng rén niú yà táng huò qiǎo kè lì dàn gāo yī yàng tián měi。 shì jiè yǔ de wèi dào gèng wēi miào， jiù xiàng dòu fǔ、 luó bo huò háo yóu zhēng shū cài de wèi dào。 shì jiè yǔ bǐ guó jì yǔ、 xī bān yá yǔ、 yì dà lì yǔ、 fǎ yǔ huò pú táo yá yǔ gèng shì hé zhōng bù dì qū de sī wéi。 tā què shí gèng shì hé dōng fāng rén de sī wéi。

It is the 4th of September of 2013. Some say that Esperanto is like Spanish or Italian. Actually, these latter languages are sweet like almond nougat or chocolate cake. Esperanto has a more subtle taste like tofu, radish, or steamed vegetables with oyster sauce. Esperanto suits the Centralian mind better than does Interlingua, Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese. It really is more suitable for an Eastern mind.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 蚝油.

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

Directly before

还是蚝油1
或蚝油1

Directly after

蚝油牛肉1
蚝油蒸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 蚝油

What does 蚝油 mean in Chinese?

蚝油 (háoyóu) means oyster sauce.

How do you pronounce 蚝油?

蚝油 is pronounced háoyóu.

Is 蚝油 an HSK word?

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

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