FLAVOUR    味道味

APPEARANCE PERCEIVED BY TASTING.
SAVORRELISHTANGSMACK
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 ／
Hyponym
  • BITTER　BASIC BAD FLAVOUR CONTRARY of SWEET. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • SOUR　FLAVOUR LIKE that of VINEGAR. [] (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
  • SWEET　FLAVOUR RESEMBLING that of SUGAR. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
See also
  • SAVOURPERCEIVE FLAVOUR.
  • ODOURThe APPEARANCE of something which one CAN SMELL.
  • TASTELESSLACK FLAVOUR.
Hypernym
  • APPEARANCE　CLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES. (anc: 4/0, child: 6)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)

Words (7 items)

味  wèi OC: mɯds MC: mɨi 36 Attributions

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 Attributions
  • 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 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPsmell and flavour
氣味  qì wèi OC: khɯds mɯds MC: khɨi mɨi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabfigurativeflavour, taste > energy
香味  xiāng wèi OC: qhaŋ mɯds MC: hi̯ɐŋ mɨi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabfeaturefragrance and flavour
口味  kǒu wèi OC: khooʔ mɯds MC: khu mɨi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabstativegood taste
臭  xiù MC: -- OC: -- 0 Attributions

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

    Syntactic words