菜 cài
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cài
noun
vegetables
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '菜'; Guoyu '菜' n 1; Unihan '菜') -
cài
noun
a dish of food
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: (Unihan '菜') -
cài
noun
food; cuisine
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '菜'; Guoyu '菜' n 2; Unihan '菜') -
cài
adjective
disappointing
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '菜' n 3)
Contained in
- 蚕菜(蠶菜) Malabar spinach; Basella alba
- 牛皮菜 chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
- 干菜(乾菜) dried vegetable
- 车轮菜(車輪菜) Plantago asiatica
- 做菜 to cook; cooking
- 苣荬菜(苣蕒菜) endive; field sow-thistle; Sonchus brachyotus
- 剩菜 leftovers
- 蒲菜 edible rhizome of cattail 香蒲
- 菰菜 wild rice shoots
- 菜籽 vegetable seeds; rapeseed
- 出菜 (at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer; to serve food
- 菜馆(菜館) restaurant
- 扬菜(揚菜) Jiangsu cuisine
- 德国酸菜(德國酸菜) sauerkraut
- 小菜 dish
- 卤菜(滷菜) pot-stewed dish
- 冬菜 preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
- 堇菜 violet
- 裙带菜(裙帶菜) wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
- 菜市场(菜市場) food market
- 泡菜 pickled cabbage
- 下酒菜 a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks
- 榨菜 hot pickled mustard tuber
- 菜脯 dried, pickled white radish
- 紫菜包饭(紫菜包飯) gimbap (Korean rice roll similar in appearance to sushi); kimbap
- 香菜叶(香菜葉) coriander leaf
- 娃娃菜 baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
- 冰菜 ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
- 莼菜(蓴菜) bracenia
- 芥菜籽 mustard seed
- 小菜碟儿(小菜碟兒) a small appetize
- 菜茹 greens; green vegetables
- 有机蔬菜(有機蔬菜) organic vegetables
- 花椰菜 cauliflower
- 面有菜色 to look famished
- 红头菜(紅頭菜) beetroot
- 荤菜(葷菜) non-vegetarian dish
- 甜菜 beet; beetroot
- 芹菜 celery
- 紫菜属(紫菜屬) Porphyra (genus of edible seaweed)
- 菜农(菜農) vegetable farmer
- 菜场(菜場) food market
- 择菜(擇菜) to pick the edible part of vegetables
- 时菜(時菜) seasonal vegetable
- 端菜 to serve food
- 看人下菜碟儿(看人下菜碟兒) to treat somebody according to their social status, relationship with them etc
- 洋菜 agar
- 菜市场名(菜市場名) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace)
- 菜畦 vegetable field; vegetable bed
- 香菜 coriander; cilantro
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- 《艸部》 Cǎo Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 18
- 卷第六 書證 Scroll 6: Writing The Family Instructions of Master Yan 顏氏家訓 — count: 8
- 卷七十三 列傳第六十三 孝義上 Volume 73 Biographies 63: Filial Acts 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 8
- 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 7
- 士昬禮 第二 2. Nuptial rites for a common officer The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 6
- 卷五十五 列傳第三十六 孝義 Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 6
- 卷下：五之煮、六之飲、七之事、八之出、九之略、十之圖 Final Scroll: 5. Boiling, 6. Drinking, 7. History, 8. Growing Regions, 9. Simplify, 10. Pictorialize The Classic of Tea 茶經 — count: 6
- 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
- 第二回 Chapter 35 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
- 卷二十四 志第十四 職官 Volume 24 Treatises 14: Government Service Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
Collocations
- 菜食 (菜食) 菜食無肉也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十八 霍光金日磾傳 Volume 68: Huo Guang and Jin Midi — count: 28
- 菜果 (菜果) 功衰食菜果 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《雜記下》 Miscellaneous Records II — count: 21
- 食菜 (食菜) 子卯稷食菜羹 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《玉藻》 The Jade-Bead Pendants of the Royal Cap — count: 21
- 盐菜 (鹽菜) 以給鹽菜之用 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重丁第八十三 Chapter 83: Weight IV — count: 19
- 释菜 (釋菜) 釋菜 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 15
- 菜羹 (菜羹) 雖疏食菜羹 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 10. 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang — count: 13
- 种菜 (種菜) 吾豈種菜者乎 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十二 蜀書二 先主傳 Volume 32: Book of Shu 2 - Biography of the Former Lord — count: 12
- 果菜 (果菜) 佗果菜千鐘 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《太史公自序》 Biographies of Usurers — count: 12
- 食盐菜 (食鹽菜) 終三年不食鹽菜 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 9
- 薪菜 (薪菜) 而飲食薪菜饒 — Guanzi 管子, 五輔第十 Chapter 10: Wu Fu — count: 7