Smell in Chinese
smell · HSK 6
气味
- 气 air
- 味 taste
这个房间有一股奇怪的气味。 This room has a strange smell.
Other ways to say smell
More words with 气 or 味
How do you say smell in Chinese?
Smell in Chinese is 气味 (qì wèi). You can also say 味 (wèi), 闻 (wén), 味道 (wèi dao), 臭 (xiù).
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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