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Food delivery in Chinese

food delivery · HSK 3

外卖 wài mài

  1. 外 wài outside
  2. 卖 mài to sell

Counted with 份: 一份外卖 yí fèn wàimài

今天晚上我们点外卖吧。 Let's order takeout tonight.

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How do you say food delivery in Chinese?

Food delivery in Chinese is 外卖 (wài mài).

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.

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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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