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Mythic Mandarin

开胃 (kāi wèi): meaning and stroke order

开胃 (kāi wèi) means to whet the appetite, appetizing, to amuse oneself at sb's expense, to tease.

开胃

Simplified
开胃
Traditional
開胃
Pinyin
kāi wèi

Stroke order of 开胃

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

Stroke by stroke

胃

  • wèi stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 开胃

  1. kāi wèi Traditional 開胃
    • to whet the appetite
    • appetizing
    • to amuse oneself at sb's expense
    • to tease

Radicals of the characters

开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
胃
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

开胃 in our stories

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  • 有一年春天，她病了，什么都吃不下。侍女们为了让她开胃，到山上去找野果。

    yǒu yì nián chūntiān tā bìng le shénme dōu chī bú xià shìnǚ men wèile ràng tā kāiwèi dào shān shàng qù zhǎo yěguǒ

    One spring she fell ill and could eat nothing. To whet her appetite, her maids went up the mountain to look for wild fruit.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 开胃

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).