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
- 名菜 famous dishes; specialty dishes
- 酱菜(醬菜) salted vegetables
- 西洋菜 watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
- 椰菜 cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
- 龙须菜(龍鬚菜) asparagus; young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜
- 小菜一碟 a small appetizer; a piece of cake; very easy
- 开胃菜(開胃菜) starter; appetizer
- 端菜 to serve food
- 包心菜 cabbage
- 面有菜色 to look famished
- 中国菜(中國菜) Chinese cuisine
- 有机蔬菜(有機蔬菜) organic vegetables
- 豆芽菜 bean sprouts
- 青花椰菜 broccoli
- 鲁菜(魯菜) Shandong cuisine
- 下酒菜 a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks
- 菜心 choy sum; Chinese flowering cabbage; stem of any Chinese cabbage
- 宝塔菜(寶塔菜) Chinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii
- 花菜 cauliflower
- 白屈菜 greater celandine
- 徽菜 Anhui cuisine
- 蕹菜 water spinach; ong choy; swamp cabbage; water convolvulus; water morning-glory
- 菜板 chopping board; cutting board
- 青江菜 bok choy; Shanghai pak choy; Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis)
- 干菜(乾菜) dried vegetable
- 菜谱(菜譜) a menu; a recipe; a cookbook
- 乌塌菜(烏塌菜) rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
- 菜圃 a vegetable field
- 娃娃菜 baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
- 菜花 cauliflower ; cauliflower; gonorrhea
- 卷心菜 cabbage
- 湘菜 Hunan cuisine
- 红牛皮菜(紅牛皮菜) chard (Beta vulgaris)
- 茭白菜 wild rice shoots
- 韭菜花 chives (Allium tuberosum)
- 菰菜 wild rice shoots
- 主菜 main course
- 德国酸菜(德國酸菜) sauerkraut
- 石花菜 seaweed (Gelidium amansii); Japanese Isinglass
- 菜馆(菜館) restaurant
- 洋菜 agar
- 黄花菜都凉了(黃花菜都涼了) the dishes are cold; to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
- 什菜 mixed vegetables
- 凝花菜 gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
- 灰菜 fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
- 老虎菜 Tiger Vegetable Salad
- 菜茹 greens; green vegetables
- 饭菜(飯菜) rice and vegetable dishes ; food; meals
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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
- 第二回 Chapter 35 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
- 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — 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
- 卷二十四 志第十四 職官 Volume 24 Treatises 14: Government Service Book of Jin 晉書 — 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
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
- 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
- 菜果 (菜果) 功衰食菜果 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《雜記下》 Miscellaneous Records II — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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