菜 cài

1. cài noun vegetables
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '菜'; Guoyu '菜' n 1; Unihan '菜')
2. cài noun a dish of food
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: (Unihan '菜')
3. 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')
4. cài adjective disappointing
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '菜' n 3)

Contained in

• 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
• 韩国泡菜(韓國泡菜) kimchi; Korean pickled cabbage
• 菜色 a dish ; lean and hungry look; emaciated look (from malnutrition)
• 白菜豆 white kidney beans
• 牛皮菜 chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
• 洋菜 agar
• 乌塌菜(烏塌菜) rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
• 菜刀 meat cleaver; knife ; a vegetable knife; a kitchen knife; a cleaver
• 菰菜 wild rice shoots
• 做菜 to cook; cooking
• 苦荬菜(苦蕒菜) Ixeris denticulata
• 蕨菜 fiddlehead; edible fern fronds
• 泡菜 pickled cabbage
• 菜圃 a vegetable field
• 绿花菜(綠花菜) broccoli
• 看菜吃饭(看菜吃飯) to eat depending on the dish; to act according to actual circumstances; to live within one's means
• 中国菜(中國菜) Chinese cuisine
• 菜市场(菜市場) food market
• 油菜 rape
• 盖菜(蓋菜) leaf mustard
• 油菜籽 oilseed rape (Brassica campestris); rapeseed; coleseed
• 炒菠菜 stir-fried spinach
• 宝塔菜(寶塔菜) Chinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii
• 冰菜 ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
• 老虎菜 Tiger Vegetable Salad
• 特价菜(特價菜) restaurant special; daily special
• 招牌菜 signature dish; a restaurant’s most famous dish
• 扬菜(揚菜) Jiangsu cuisine
• 菜市仔名 popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace)
• 小菜碟儿(小菜碟兒) a small appetize
• 上菜 to serve, also to put on plate
• 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
• 鱼生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安(魚生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安) fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
• 菜篮子(菜籃子) vegetable or food basket; (fig.) food supply
• 卤菜(滷菜) pot-stewed dish
• 麒麟菜 eucheuma, a type of red algae (used in TCM)
• 生菜 lettuce; raw fresh vegetables; greens
• 凝花菜 gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
• 酒菜 food and drink; food to accompany wine
• 上海白菜 baby bok choy; Shanghai bok choy
• 石花菜 seaweed (Gelidium amansii); Japanese Isinglass
• 红头菜(紅頭菜) beetroot
• 青花椰菜 broccoli
• 菜地 vegetable field
• 蔊菜 a herb (Nasturtium montanum)
• 发菜(髮菜) long thread moss; faat choy; hair moss
• 什菜 mixed vegetables
• 高丽菜(高麗菜) cabbage
• 大白菜 bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica pekinensis
• 菜瓜 snake melon; loofah

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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 40 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
• 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
• 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

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