合口味 (hé kǒu wèi) — to suit one's taste; to be to one's liking

Definition

An informal, spoken way to say something 'suits your taste' — used for food, music, ideas, plans, etc. The pattern is often 这/那 + thing + 很/不 + 合口味.

adjective

to suit one's tasteto be to one's liking

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

口味taste

偏正Modifier + head

合 means to suit, and 口味 is the mouth's taste, together giving a sense of suiting one's liking.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

亼口合

合 shows 亼 and 口 arranged as two mouths speaking together.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 口 looks like an open mouth.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

口未味

Meaning part形符xíngfú

口口kǒumouth

Sound part声符shēngfú

未

Same sound today

味 combines 口 (mouth) with 未, which gives the sound wèi; the mouth part relates to taste.