No. 4,639 in Chinese
火锅
"Hot pot" – a Chinese dish where diners cook meats, vegetables, and other ingredients in a shared pot of simmering broth.
In a sentence
我喜欢吃火锅，因为它有很多美味的食材。
I like eating hotpot because it contains a variety of tasty ingredients.
火锅 is used as a direct translation matching the dish hotpot, utilized as a noun in this sentence.
今天晚上，我们计划去火锅店聚餐。
Tonight, we plan to go to the hotpot restaurant for a gathering.
火锅 here forms a compound noun 火锅店, which means hotpot restaurant, explicitly connecting the word to a specific location.
他对火锅的做法很了解，经常自己制作。
He knows the method of cooking hotpot very well and often prepares it himself.
火锅 is referenced to outline the context of preparation or cooking, highlighting a subject of discussion.
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