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味道

Mandarin · pinyin wèi dao

flavor; taste
(fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...)
(fig.) interest; delight
(dialect) smell; odor

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味: wèi · taste, smell, odor; delicacy
道: dào · path, road, street; method, way

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4–5 · wei4 dao5

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mei6 dou6

Cantonese word readings for 味道. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

flavor; taste
flavor; taste — (figurative) taste of cooking; food
smell; odour (Classifier: 股 m)
(figurative) interest
(figurative) particular sense or feeling
(particle physics) flavor

verb

(Classical) to observe the rules; to savour the reasons; to perceive the truth

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