Spices in Chinese (Mandarin): 香料 (xiāngliào)
香料
xiāngliào
spices
- Simplified
- 香料
- Traditional
- 香料
- Pinyin
- xiāngliào
- Typed as
- xiangliao
Use it in a sentence
香料让食物闻起来很香。
香料讓食物聞起來很香。
Spices make food smell good.
The characters in 香料
香
Fragrant.
9 strokes
料
Material, ingredient. 米 (rice) is on the left.
10 strokes
香料 are "fragrant ingredients". Cinnamon is 肉桂 (ròuguì), and pepper is 胡椒 (hújiāo).
More examples with 香料
妈妈做菜用很多香料。
媽媽做菜用很多香料。
Māma zuò cài yòng hěn duō xiāngliào.
Mom cooks with lots of spices.
香料很贵。
香料很貴。
Xiāngliào hěn guì.
Spices are expensive.
How to write 香料 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
香 9 strokes
料 10 strokes
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