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Cake in Chinese

cake · HSK 3

蛋糕 dàn gāo

  1. 蛋 dàn egg
  2. 糕 gāo cake

Counted with 个: 一个蛋糕 yí gè dàngāo

妈妈给我做了一个生日蛋糕。 Mom made me a birthday cake.

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Other ways to say cake

More words with 蛋 or 糕

How do you say cake in Chinese?

Cake in Chinese is 蛋糕 (dàn gāo). You can also say 饼 (bǐng).

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?

The CC-CEDICT 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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