FLAVOUR  味道味

APPEARANCE PERCEIVED BY TASTING.
SAVORRELISHTANGSMACK
Hypernym
  • APPEARANCECLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES.
    • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
See also
  • SAVOURPERCEIVE FLAVOUR.
    • ODOURThe APPEARANCE of something which one CAN SMELL.
      • TASTELESSLACK FLAVOUR.
        Hyponym
        • BITTER　BASIC BAD FLAVOUR CONTRARY of SWEET.
          • SOUR　FLAVOUR LIKE that of VINEGAR. []
            • SWEET　FLAVOUR RESEMBLING that of SUGAR.
              Old Chinese Criteria
              1. The current noun for taste is wèi 味. (The current verb for tasting something is cháng 嘗. See also TASTE).

              2. Chòu 臭 is the flavour of something as primarily perceived through the nose. For this see SMELL

              Modern Chinese Criteria
              味道

              滋味

              香味

              調味料

              rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

                Words

                味  wèi OC: mɯds MC: mɨi 33 AttributionsWD

                The current noun for taste is wèi 味. (The current verb for tasting something is cháng 嘗. See also TASTE).

                  Word relations
                • Contrast: 臭/ODOUR The general word for an odour, either pleasant or unpleasant, is xiù 臭.

                  Syntactic words
                • nab.post-Nfeaturetaste, flavour
                • nab.post-Nfigurativeaesthetic flavour reminiscent of NCH
                • nab.post-V{NUM}featureflavours
                • nab[post-N]flavour
                • vtoNhave a taste for; taste
                • vtoNputativefind flavour in something
                法味  fǎ wèi OC: pab mɯds MC: pi̯ɐp mɨi 3 AttributionsWD
                • 大方廣佛華嚴經 Dà fāngguǎng Fó huāyán jīng Avataṃsaka sūtra Taishō ( AVATAMSAKA(B)) p. 136a

                  願一切眾生，得無量法味，了達法界。。。願一切眾生，法味增益，常得滿足。

                • 佛光大辭典 Fóguāng dàcídiǎn The Foguang Dictionary of Buddhism ( FOGUANG) p. 3357a

                • 大正新修大藏經 Taishō shinshū daizōkyō Revised Edition of the Buddhist Canon in the Taishō Era ( T.) p. 26: 231a

                  淨土論：愛樂佛法味，禪三昧為食。

                  Syntactic words
                • NPabbuddhistBUDDH: dharma-flavour; skr. dharma-saṃrāga (also: 佛法味, 法智味)
                臭味  xiù wèi MC: -- mj+jH OC: -- mɯds 2 AttributionsWD
                  Syntactic words
                • NPsmell and flavour
                口味  kǒu wèi OC: khooʔ mɯds MC: khu mɨi 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • NPabstativegood taste
                氣味  qì wèi OC: khɯds mɯds MC: khɨi mɨi 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • NPabfigurativeflavour, taste > energy
                香味  xiāng wèi OC: qhaŋ mɯds MC: hi̯ɐŋ mɨi 1 AttributionWD
                  Syntactic words
                • NPabfeaturefragrance and flavour
                臭  xiù MC: -- OC: -- 0 AttributionsWD

                Xiù 臭 is the flavour of something as primarily perceived through the nose. For this see SMELL

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