材料 cáiliào▶ Ciencia de los materiales

Stroke order

材料 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 材 — 7 strokes
• 料 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. (raw) material
2. data
3. (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job

Example sentences

• 做这个菜需要什么材料？Zuò zhège cài xūyào shénme cáiliào?What ingredients does this dish need?
• 他在看会议的材料。Tā zài kàn huìyì de cáiliào.He is reading the materials for the meeting.

Related words

• 塑料袋Bolsa de plástico
• 原料materia prima
• 教材material didáctico
• 资料datos
• 身材figura; cifra
• 饮料Bebidas

材料 is pronounced cáiliào and means “Ciencia de los materiales”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 材料 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.