Tom likes cheese.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
起司
(Tw) (loanword) cheese
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(Tw) (loanword) cheese
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 起司 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起司 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The cheese is very stretchy.
I spread cheese on bread.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 起司.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 起司.
Directly before
- 吃起司1
- 把起司1
- 喜欢起司1
- 香蒜起司1
- 的起司1
Directly after
- 起司却1
- 起司涂1
- 起司非常1
- 起司披萨1
- 起司能流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 起司
What does 起司 mean in Chinese?
起司 (qǐsī) means (Tw) (loanword) cheese.
How do you pronounce 起司?
起司 is pronounced qǐsī.
Is 起司 an HSK word?
起司 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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