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菜 cài dish

dish; vegetable; cuisine

How to remember 菜: 艹 grass + 采 pick = dish. The chef crawls through the grass to pick wild herbs for tonight's special dish.

  • 1,266. most frequent character
  • HSK 1
  • 11 strokes
  • Radical 艸

Component breakdown

菜 = 艹 grass + 采 pick

  • 艹 grass
  • 采 pick
The Gushi story

The chef crawls through the grass to pick wild herbs for tonight's special dish.

How it is used

  • Covers both 'vegetable' and 'a cooked dish' - 买菜 (mǎi cài) buy groceries, 点菜 (diǎn cài) order dishes, 中国菜 (Zhōngguó cài) Chinese cuisine.
  • 菜单 (càidān) menu. Slang: 我很菜 (wǒ hěn cài) = I'm useless at this.

Words with 菜

Example sentences

  • 这道菜很好吃。 Zhè dào cài hěn hǎochī.This dish is delicious.
  • 这道菜的味道很一般。 Zhè dào cài de wèidao hěn yìbān.The taste of this dish is very ordinary.
  • 一般来说，东北菜比较咸。 Yībānláishuō, Dōngběi cài bǐjiào xián.Generally speaking, Dongbei cuisine is rather salty.
  • 桌上摆了很多菜。 Zhuō shàng bǎile hěn duō cài.There are a lot of dishes on the table.