· 6 lists · 240 words
Food and drink
Ingredients, tastes, eating out, the kitchen, food culture, farming.
What holds these lists together
Chinese food words are built in the open: 牛肉 is cow meat, 猪肉 pig meat, and 肉 on its own often means pork. Rice has three words where English has one: 米 is the raw grain, 米饭 the cooked rice, and 饭 both cooked rice and a meal, so 吃饭 means to eat, whatever is on the table. A dish is 菜, the same word as a vegetable, which is why ordering is 点菜. Taste is described as a set of five — 酸, 甜, 苦, 辣, 咸: sour, sweet, bitter, hot and salty — and a menu expects you to know them. The lists run from the first meal words through the kitchen and the restaurant to the farm and the label on the packet.
The six lists
Spread across the levels
The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.
| Level | Words | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 17 % |
| 2 | 47 | 20 % |
| 3 | 77 | 32 % |
| 4 | 42 | 18 % |
| 5 | 34 | 14 % |
Practise this category
Multiple choice and gaps, across all six lists and all 240 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.