HSK 4 · Food

味道 wèidao “flavour” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 味道 means

  1. flavour
  2. taste
  3. a feeling or hint (of something)
  4. (fig.) feeling (of …)
  5. sense (of …)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • hint (of …)
  • (fig.) interest
  • delight
  • (dialect) smell
  • odour

How to say 味道

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale味wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own道daoneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

味道 in a sentence

  1. 我喜欢西瓜的味道。

    Wǒ xǐhuan xīguā de wèidao.

    I like the taste of watermelon.

    Sentence #392763 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这个沙拉有柠檬的味道。

    Zhè ge shālā yǒu níngméng de wèidao.

    This salad tastes of lemon.

    Sentence #375392 from Tatoeba

  3. 我感冒了，所以吃不出味道来。

    Wǒ gǎnmào le, suǒyǐ chī bu chū wèidao lái.

    I’ve got a cold, so I can’t taste anything.

    Sentence #2806358 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 味道 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 味 (wèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
味wèitaste
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 未part of the characterSound part
The character 道 (dào) with each of its parts in a different colour
道dàoroad; path 条,股)light in 味道
  • 首head · shǒuSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 首 (shǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with dao.

Memory aidPicture walking 辶 with your head 首 leading the way: a road, a way.

How to write 味道

味 8 strokes · 道 12 strokes

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

Words related to 味道

Words with 味

口味kǒuwèi · taste风味fēngwèi · local flavour滋味zīwèi · taste趣味qùwèi · interest气味qìwèi · smell意味着yìwèizhe · to mean津津有味jīnjīnyǒuwèi · with relish

Words with 道

知道zhīdao · to know (a fact)街道jiēdào · street道dào · (m.w. for orders道歉dàoqiàn · to apologise难道nándào · don’t tell me …报道bàodào · to report (news)地道dìdao · authentic道德dàodé · virtue频道píndào · frequency道理dàoli · reason

More words: Food & Drink

勺子sháozi · scoop酸suān · sour汤tāng · soup糖táng · sugar小吃xiǎochī · snack西红柿xīhóngshì · tomato咸xián · salted盐yán · salt

FAQs

味道 (wèidao) means “flavour” or “taste”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it wèidao: wèi with a 4th tone, then dao with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 味道 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weidao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 味道 from the suggestions. Typing weidao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
味道 is an HSK 4 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.