甜
HSK 3freq #2472
Meanings
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- 1.sweet
- 2.(fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
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Wiktionary
- 1.sweet; sugary; honeyed
- 2.pleasant; comfortable; happy
- 3.sound
- 4.bland; tasteless; not salty
- 5.delicious; tasty
- 6.cheap; inexpensive
- 7.romantic
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 舌 (“tongue”) + 甘 (“sweet”). Rearrangement of 甛. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ljam (“sweet; fragrant”) (STEDT). Compare Tibetan ཞིམ (zhim, “tasty”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你要什麼甜點？
What would you like for dessert?
这个蛋糕太甜了。
The cake is too sweet.
蘋果被當作甜點。
Apples were served as the dessert.
我想要吃甜的東西。
I want something sweet to eat.
我要一些甜的東西。
I want something sweet.
我想吃點甜的東西。
I feel like eating something sweet.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
甜蜜 sweet甜美 sweet甜头 sweet taste (of power, success etc); benefit甜酒 sweet liquor口甜 soft-spoken齁甜 (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet; cloying甜润 sweet and mellow纽甜 (loanword) neotame甜心 delighted to oblige甜橙 sweet orange (Citrus sinensis)甜菊 Stevia, South American sunflower genus回甜 to have a sweet aftertaste