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  *菜* | 菜* | *菜
vegetable; greens (CL:) / dish (of food) (CL:樣|样,,盤|盘) / (of one's skills etc) weak; poor / (coll.) (one's) type
HSK 1
Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL: , 個|个
HSK 3
vegetables / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
menu / CL: , 張|张
HSK 2
broccoli
food market
HSK 7-9
broccoli
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
menu bar (of a computer application)
dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks; snack eaten with drinks
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
Chinese cuisine
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荬* | 荬* | *荬
kidney bean
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
national food specialty
a small appetizer / a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
(dialect) to stop functioning
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
(fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly (esp. small investors, consumers or fans), treating them as an endlessly renewable resource to harvest for profit
to serve food
to buy groceries
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
cabbage
(dialect) meaty dish
specialty (dish)
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
Chinese cabbage; napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / CL:
Indian lettuce
pot-stewed dish
(regional) cuisine
leftovers (food)
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟
choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage
(at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer / to serve food
starter / appetizer
kimchi
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:顆|颗,個|个) / Taiwan pr. [gao1li4cai4]
vegetable garden
vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
chard (Beta vulgaris)
main course
to cook / cooking
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
dinner show / dinner and floor show
(slang) total noob
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
(saying) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own
salted vegetables / pickles
vegetable dish
food market
vegetable farmer
broccoli
baby bok choy / Shanghai bok choy
cold dish / cold food
(slang) entertaining content such as Internet videos and TV shows that people watch while eating
Hunan cuisine
to cook
vegetable seeds / rapeseed
a type of rapeseed plant (Brassica rapa) that yields a leafy green vegetable similar to baby bok choy
(dialect) restaurant
bean sprouts
cabbage
regional dish / local cuisine
Cantonese cuisine
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
steamed bun stuffed with vegetables / (fig.) useless person / a good-for-nothing
tiger salad, a northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek
(dialect) to get confused; to be dumbfounded; to get dizzy
see 茼蒿
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
cauliflower
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
Jiangsu cuisine
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
to grow vegetables
(Tw) A-choy, or Taiwanese lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. sativa) (from Taiwanese 萵仔菜, Tai-lo pr. [ue-á-tshài] or [e-á-tshài])
dried vegetable
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
mussels (as food)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:
ready-made meal
rapeseed oil; canola oil
food and drink / food to accompany wine
Taiwanese food
milk cabbage (aka "white bok choy" and various other names), a variety of bok choy

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