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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

起士

qǐshì

(Tw) (loanword) cheese

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(Tw) (loanword) cheese

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 起士 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起士 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我吃了一个起士汉堡。wǒ chī le yí gè qǐ shì hàn bǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我不是非常喜欢起士。wǒ bú shì fēi cháng xǐ huān qǐ shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 起士.

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

Directly before

  • 喜欢起士1
  • 一个起士1

Directly after

  • 起士汉堡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 起士

What does 起士 mean in Chinese?

起士 (qǐshì) means (Tw) (loanword) cheese.

How do you pronounce 起士?

起士 is pronounced qǐshì.

Is 起士 an HSK word?

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

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