味儿

wèir · HSK 4

taste

👅 味 = taste + 儿 (Beijing -r suffix); colloquial wèir for flavor

味 (wèi) means flavor or taste; the 儿 suffix is the Beijing erhua, adding a rolled -r ending to the syllable. So 味儿 is the spoken northern form of 味, common in casual speech for smell or taste.

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