VocabularyHSK 3 · core

菜

cài

dish, vegetable

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

菜vegetable

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Examples

今天的菜很好吃。
Today's dishes are delicious.
我去买菜。
I'm going grocery shopping.

Collocations

做菜买菜蔬菜

Mnemonic

菜 cài has TWO meanings: (1) dish/cuisine (做菜 cook a dish), (2) vegetable (买菜 buy groceries). 中国菜 "Chinese cuisine". One character covers both food categories.

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Meaning of 中国菜?