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菜
cài
1.
dish (type of food)
2.
vegetable
3.
cuisine
4.
CL:[[盤|盘<pán>]], [[道<dào>]]
5.
(coll.) (one's) type
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
上菜
shàngcài
to serve, also to put on plate
主菜
zhǔcài
main book
干菜
gāncài
dried vegetable
什菜
shícài
mixed vegetables
做菜
zuòcài
to cook
冬菜
dōngcài
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
冷菜
lěngcài
cold dish
剩菜
shèngcài
leftovers (food)
包菜
bāocài
cabbage
台菜
Táicài
Taiwanese food
名菜
míngcài
famous dishes
国菜
guócài
national food specialty
堇菜
jǐncài
violet (botany)
小菜
xiǎocài
appetizer
川菜
Chuāncài
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
徽菜
Huīcài
Anhui cuisine
扬菜
Yángcài
Jiangsu cuisine
择菜
zháicài
to pick the edible part of vegetables
时菜
shícài
seasonal vegetable
椰菜
yēcài
cabbage
Example Sentences (1)
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 1
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,265
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,512 of 84,292