HSK 5 · Food

胃口 wèikǒu “appetite” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 胃口 means

  1. appetite
  2. liking

How to say 胃口

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale胃wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale口kǒu3rd tone, dipping

胃口 in a sentence

  1. 他的胃口很好。

    Tā de wèikǒu hěn hǎo.

    He has a good appetite.

    Sentence #833104 from Tatoeba

  2. 祝你胃口好！

    Zhù nǐ wèikǒu hǎo!

    Enjoy your meal!

    Sentence #392015 from Tatoeba

  3. 这个菜很对胃口。

    Zhè ge cài hěn duì wèikǒu.

    This dish really suits my taste.

    Sentence #1058170 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 胃口 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 胃 (wèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
胃wèistomach
  • 田field · tián
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
The character 口 (kǒu) with each of its parts in a different colour
口kǒumouth
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidDrawn from an open mouth.

How to write 胃口

胃 9 strokes · 口 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

胃口 (wèikǒu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 胃口 (wèikǒu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 胃口

Words with 胃

胃wèi · stomach

Words with 口

门口ménkǒu · doorway口kǒu · mouth路口lùkǒu · intersection入口rùkǒu · entrance口味kǒuwèi · taste借口jièkǒu · to use as an excuse出口chūkǒu · exit进口jìnkǒu · to import人口rénkǒu · population可口kěkǒu · tasty

More words: Food & Dining

食物shíwù · food蔬菜shūcài · vegetables桃táo · peach土豆tǔdòu · potato香肠xiāngcháng · sausage小麦xiǎomài · wheat宴会yànhuì · banquet营养yíngyǎng · nutrition

FAQs

胃口 (wèikǒu) means “appetite” or “liking”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wèikǒu: wèi with a 4th tone, then kǒu with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 胃口 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weikou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胃口 from the suggestions. Typing weikou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胃口 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.