菜 (cài)
vegetable; dish; cuisine
How 菜 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 菜
- Simplified
- 菜 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 爫 claw/talon
- 木 tree
Common words using 菜
- 菜刀 càidāo
- vegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver
- 蔬菜 shūcài
- vegetables; produce; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- 上菜 shàngcài
- to serve, also to put on plate
- 做菜 zuòcài
- to cook; cooking
- 大白菜 dàbáicài
- bok choy; Chinese cabbage; Brassica pekinensis
- 家常菜 jiāchángcài
- home cooking
- 小菜 xiǎocài
- appetizer; small side dish; easy job
- 小菜一碟 xiǎocàiyīdié
- a small appetizer; a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
- 川菜 chuāncài
- Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
- 油菜 yóucài
- oilseed rape (Brassica campestris)
- 泡菜 pàocài
- pickled cabbage
- 炒菜 chǎocài
- stir-fried dish
菜 in a sentence
你點了什麼菜？
Nǐ diǎn le shénme cài?
“What dishes did you order?”
How common is 菜?
菜 is the 1,264th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.6% of all running text.
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