Barbecue in Chinese
barbecue · HSK 5
烧烤
- 烧 to burn
- 烤 to roast
晚上我们去吃烧烤吧。 Let's go have barbecue tonight.
More words with 烧 or 烤
How do you say barbecue in Chinese?
Barbecue in Chinese is 烧烤 (shāo kǎo).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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