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菜
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Definitions
- 1. dish (type of food)
- 2. vegetable
- 3. cuisine
- 4. (coll.) (one's) type
- 5. (of one's skills etc) weak
- 6. poor
Example Sentences
1 shown吃 菜 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 菜
chives (Allium tuberosum)
main course
vegetable dish
cabbage
food market
oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
national food specialty
wild herb
cabbage
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
leftovers (food)
broccoli
lit. to eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom)
see 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xuě lǐ hóng]
Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[féng dé yīng] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
a small appetizer
Fujian cuisine
specialty (dish)
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽[chuān lǔ yuè sū zhè mǐn xiāng huī]
signature dish
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
mixed vegetables
Jiangsu cuisine
agar-agar
starter
vegetable and meat dishes; dish
Cantonese cuisine
to cook
coriander leaf
bean sprouts
chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
green vegetables
see 芥藍|芥蓝[gài lán]
(coll.) sb new to a particular subject
radish
greens
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
cauliflower
garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives
salted vegetables
white kidney beans
famous dishes
fiddlehead
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea)
(idiom) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
vegetable or food basket
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus)
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae
to look famished
coriander
vegetable seeds
\Tiger Vegetable Salad
rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
home cooking
to serve food
context menu (computing)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
Jiangsu cuisine
Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard)
lit. cabbage price
to pick the edible part of vegetables
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
dish
dried vegetable
cauliflower
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
stir-fried spinach
vegetable field
mustard seed
foreign food
vegetable farmer
dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe)
appetizer
endive
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
menu bar (of a computer application)
Shanghainese food
vegetables
Anhui cuisine
Chinese cabbage
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
pot-stewed dish
bok choy
menu (in restaurant)
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
Porphyra (genus of edible seaweed)
fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
cabbage
menu
broccoli
chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
seasonal vegetable
cabbage
leaf mustard
greens
Shandong cuisine
oilseed rape (Brassica campestris)
vegetable knife
dinner show
kimchi
see 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛|萝卜白菜，各有所爱[luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài]
agar-agar powder
to stir-fry
Houttuynia cordata
to serve food
Chinese artichoke
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
fruit and vegetables
fig. to arrive late
autumn vegetables
water spinach
(slang) total noob
chopping board
violet (botany)
cauliflower
greater celandine
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
food and drink
dried, pickled white radish
beet
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
purple cabbage
edible rhizome of cattail 香蒲[xiāng pú]
kidney bean
beet
bok choy
gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
food market
(dialect) restaurant
rapeseed oil
to cook
parsley
kimchi
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
(dialect) to get confused
shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Zhejiang cuisine
vegetable field
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
food
cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
fresh vegetable
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
(dialect) scrambled eggs
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Taiwanese food
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom)
choy sum
celery (Apium graveolens)
restaurant special
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
vegetable field
Hunan cuisine
ready-made meal
broccoli
cooked food (ready to eat)
regional dish
a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks
bok choy
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni)
Stop it! (Beijing and Internet slang)
snake melon
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Brasenia schreberi
pickled cabbage
spinach
see 茼蒿[tóng hāo]
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
cabbage
wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
sauerkraut
(regional) cuisine
agar
lettuce
beef cattle (grown for meat)
menu bar (computing)
asparagus
Chinese cuisine
see 蕹菜[wèng cài]
broccoli
(at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer
food market
steamed bun stuffed with vegetables
Indian lettuce
baby bok choy
beetroot
Ixeris denticulata
Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted
dinner show
chopping board
hot pickled mustard tuber
vegetable garden
broccoli
creamed cauliflower