菜 cài
-
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
- 时菜(時菜) seasonal vegetable
- 菜肴(菜餚) vegetable and meat dishes; dish
- 上菜秀 dinner show; dinner and floor show
- 炒菠菜 stir-fried spinach
- 酱菜(醬菜) salted vegetables
- 菜单(菜單) menu
- 看菜吃饭，量体裁衣(看菜吃飯，量體裁衣) eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body; to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure; to act according to actual circumstances
- 绿花椰菜(綠花椰菜) broccoli
- 特价菜(特價菜) restaurant special; daily special
- 招牌菜 signature dish; a restaurant’s most famous dish
- 椰菜花 cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
- 菜篮子(菜籃子) vegetable or food basket; (fig.) food supply
- 空心菜 water spinach; ong choy; swamp cabbage; water convolvulus; water morning-glory
- 摊黄菜(攤黃菜) scrambled eggs
- 紫菜属(紫菜屬) Porphyra (genus of edible seaweed)
- 咸菜(鹹菜) salted vegetables; pickles
- 白菜价(白菜價) lit. cabbage price; low price
- 荇菜 yellow floating heart
- 出菜秀 dinner show
- 苦荬菜(苦蕒菜) Ixeris denticulata
- 酒菜 food and drink; food to accompany wine
- 菰菜 wild rice shoots
- 灰菜 fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
- 菜籽 vegetable seeds; rapeseed
- 萝卜白菜，各有所爱(蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own
- 苏菜(蘇菜) Jiangsu cuisine
- 扬菜(揚菜) Jiangsu cuisine
- 看人下菜碟儿(看人下菜碟兒) to treat somebody according to their social status, relationship with them etc
- 茭儿菜 wild rice shoots
- 香菜叶(香菜葉) coriander leaf
- 菜谱(菜譜) a menu; a recipe; a cookbook
- 野菜 wild herb; potherb
- 中国菜(中國菜) Chinese cuisine
- 菜牛 beef cattle (grown for meat)
- 青江菜 bok choy; Shanghai pak choy; Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis)
- 凝花菜 gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
- 红牛皮菜(紅牛皮菜) chard (Beta vulgaris)
- 秋菜 autumn vegetables
- 苋菜(莧菜) amaranth greens ; Chinese spinach
- 花菜 cauliflower
- 家常菜 home cooking
- 白菜豆 white kidney beans
- 青花菜 broccoli
- 菜色 a dish ; lean and hungry look; emaciated look (from malnutrition)
- 花椰菜 cauliflower
- 冬菜 preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
- 小白菜 bok choy; Chinese cabbage
- 菜市场名(菜市場名) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace)
Also contained in
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《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
- 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
- 士昬禮 第二 2. Nuptial rites for a common officer The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — 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
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
- 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