HSK 6 · Food

佳肴 jiāyáo “fine dish” in Chinese

Traditional 佳餚

What 佳肴 means

  1. fine dish
  2. delicacy
  3. fine food
  4. delicacies
  5. delicious food

How to say 佳肴

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale佳jiā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale肴yáo2nd tone, rising

佳肴 in a sentence

  1. 桌上摆满了美味佳肴。

    Zhuō shàng bǎimǎn le měiwèi jiāyáo.

    The table was covered with delicious dishes.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 过年的时候，妈妈做了一桌佳肴。

    Guònián de shíhou, māma zuò le yì zhuō jiāyáo.

    At New Year, Mum made a whole table of fine dishes.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 佳肴 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 佳 (jiā) with each of its parts in a different colour
佳jiābeautiful
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 圭jade tablet · guīSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 圭 (guī) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiā.

The character 肴 (yáo) with each of its parts in a different colour
肴yáomeat dishes
  • 乂to govern · yìSound part
  • 有to have · yǒu

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 乂 (yì) hints at the sound. Compare it with yáo.

How to write 佳肴

佳 8 strokes · 肴 8 strokes

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

Words related to 佳肴

More words: Food & Dining

荤hūn · meat dish家常jiācháng · home-style煎jiān · to pan-fry搅拌jiǎobàn · to stir咀嚼jǔjué · to chew可口kěkǒu · tasty狼吞虎咽lángtūnhǔyàn · to wolf down (food)烹饪pēngrèn · cooking

FAQs

佳肴 (jiāyáo) means “fine dish” or “delicacy”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiāyáo: jiā with a 1st tone, then yáo with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 佳肴 is written 佳餚. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiayao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 佳肴 from the suggestions. Typing jiayao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
佳肴 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.