| 菜 | [ caì ] dish (type of food), vegetable, cuisine, CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4], (coll.) (one's) type, (of one's skills etc) weak, poor |
| 菜刀 | [ caì daō ] vegetable knife, kitchen knife, cleaver, CL:把[ba3] |
| 菜包子 | [ caì baō zi ] steamed bun stuffed with vegetables, (fig.) useless person, a good-for-nothing |
| 菜單 | [ caì dān ] menu, CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1] |
| 菜單條 | [ caì dān ] menu bar (of a computer application) |
| 菜單欄 | [ caì dān lán ] menu bar (computing) |
| 菜圃 | [ caì pǔ ] vegetable field, vegetable bed |
| 菜園 | [ caì yuán ] vegetable garden |
| 菜地 | [ caì dì ] vegetable field |
| 菜場 | [ caì chǎng ] food market |
| 菜墩子 | [ caì dūn zi ] chopping board |
| 菜市 | [ caì shì ] food market |
| 菜市仔名 | [ caì shì zǐ míng ] (Tw) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace) (from Taiwanese 菜市仔名, Tai-lo pr. [tshài-tshī-á-miâ], where 菜市仔 means "marketplace") |
| 菜市場 | [ caì shì chǎng ] food market |
| 菜市場名 | [ caì shì chǎng míng ] (Tw) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace) |
| 菜式 | [ caì shì ] dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe) |
| 菜心 | [ caì xīn ] choy sum, Chinese flowering cabbage, stem of any Chinese cabbage |
| 菜板 | [ caì bǎn ] chopping board, cutting board, CL:張|张[zhang1] |
| 菜油 | [ caì yoú ] rapeseed oil, canola oil |
| 菜燕 | [ caì yàn ] agar-agar |
| 菜牛 | [ caì niú ] beef cattle (grown for meat) |
| 菜瓜 | [ caì guā ] snake melon, loofah |
| 菜畦 | [ caì qí ] vegetable field, vegetable bed |
| 菜籃子 | [ caì lán zi ] vegetable or food basket, (fig.) food supply |
| 菜籽 | [ caì zǐ ] vegetable seeds, rapeseed |
| 菜系 | [ caì xì ] (regional) cuisine |
| 菜脯 | [ caì pú ] dried, pickled white radish |
| 菜色 | [ caì sè ] dish, lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet), emaciated look (from malnutrition) |
| 菜花 | [ caì huā ] cauliflower, gonorrhea |
| 菜茹 | [ caì rú ] greens, green vegetables |
| 菜蔬 | [ caì shū ] greens, vegetables, vegetable side dish |
| 菜譜 | [ caì pǔ ] menu (in restaurant), recipe, cookbook |
| 菜豆 | [ caì doù ] kidney bean |
| 菜農 | [ caì nóng ] vegetable farmer |
| 菜雞 | [ caì jī ] (slang) total noob |
| 菜頭 | [ caì toú ] (Tw) turnip, radish |
| 菜餚 | [ caì yaó ] vegetable and meat dishes, dish |
| 菜館 | [ caì guǎn ] (dialect) restaurant |
| 菜鳥 | [ caì ] (coll.) sb new to a particular subject, rookie, beginner, newbie |
| ⇒ A菜 | [ caì ] (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]) |
| ⇒ 上下文菜單 | [ shàng xià wén caì dān ] context menu (computing) |
| ⇒ 上海白菜 | [ shàng haǐ baí caì ] baby bok choy, Shanghai bok choy |
| ⇒ 上菜 | [ shàng caì ] to serve food |
| ⇒ 上菜秀 | [ shàng caì xiù ] dinner show, dinner and floor show |
| ⇒ 下酒菜 | [ xià jiǔ caì ] a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks |
| ⇒ 中國菜 | [ zhōng guó caì ] Chinese cuisine |
| ⇒ 主菜 | [ zhǔ caì ] main course |
| ⇒ 乾菜 | [ gān caì ] dried vegetable |
| ⇒ 什菜 | [ shí caì ] mixed vegetables |
| ⇒ 做菜 | [ zuò caì ] to cook, cooking |
| ⇒ 八大菜系 | [ bā dà caì xì ] the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽[Chuan1 Lu3 Yue4 Su1 Zhe4 Min3 Xiang1 Hui1] |
| ⇒ 冬菜 | [ dōng caì ] preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens |
| ⇒ 冰菜 | [ bīng caì ] ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) |
| ⇒ 冷菜 | [ lěng caì ] cold dish, cold food |
| ⇒ 凝花菜 | [ níng huā caì ] gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae |
| ⇒ 出菜 | [ chū caì ] (at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer, to serve food |
| ⇒ 出菜秀 | [ chū caì xiù ] dinner show, dinner and floor show |
| ⇒ 剩菜 | [ shèng caì ] leftovers (food) |
| ⇒ 包心菜 | [ baō xīn caì ] cabbage |
| ⇒ 包菜 | [ baō caì ] cabbage |
| ⇒ 卷心菜 | [ juǎn xīn caì ] cabbage, CL:棵[ke1] |
| ⇒ 台菜 | [ taí caì ] Taiwanese food |
| ⇒ 名菜 | [ míng caì ] famous dishes, specialty dishes |
| ⇒ 國菜 | [ guó caì ] national food specialty |
| ⇒ 圓白菜 | [ yuán baí caì ] round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage) |
| ⇒ 堇菜 | [ jǐn caì ] violet (botany) |
| ⇒ 塌棵菜 | [ tā kē caì ] Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard), Chinese flat cabbage |
| ⇒ 大白菜 | [ dà baí caì ] bok choy, Chinese cabbage, Brassica pekinensis, CL:棵[ke1] |
| ⇒ 奶油菜花 | [ naǐ yoú caì huā ] creamed cauliflower |
| ⇒ 娃娃菜 | [ wá wa caì ] baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety) |
| ⇒ 家常菜 | [ jiā cháng caì ] home cooking |
| ⇒ 家鄉菜 | [ jiā xiāng caì ] regional dish, local cuisine |
| ⇒ 寶塔菜 | [ baǒ tǎ caì ] Chinese artichoke, Stachys sieboldii |
| ⇒ 小白菜 | [ baí caì ] bok choy, Chinese cabbage, Brassica chinensis, CL:棵[ke1] |
| ⇒ 小菜 | [ caì ] appetizer, small side dish, easy job, piece of cake, see also 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2] |
| ⇒ 小菜一碟 | [ caì yī dié ] a small appetizer, a piece of cake; very easy (idiom) |
| ⇒ 小菜兒 | [ caì ] erhua variant of 小菜[xiao3 cai4] |
| ⇒ 小菜碟兒 | [ caì dié ] erhua variant of 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2] |
| ⇒ 山嵛菜 | [ shān yú caì ] variant of 山萮菜[shan1 yu2 cai4] |
| ⇒ 山萮菜 | [ shān yú caì ] wasabi (Eutrema wasabi Maxim), a kind of fern used in Japanese cooking |
| ⇒ 川菜 | [ chuān caì ] Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine |
| ⇒ 德國酸菜 | [ dé guó suān caì ] sauerkraut |
| ⇒ 徽菜 | [ huī caì ] Anhui cuisine |
| ⇒ 招牌菜 | [ zhaō paí caì ] signature dish, a restaurant’s most famous dish |
| ⇒ 拿手菜 | [ ná shoǔ caì ] specialty (dish) |
| ⇒ 捲心菜 | [ juǎn xīn caì ] variant of 卷心菜[juan3 xin1 cai4] |
| ⇒ 揚菜 | [ yáng caì ] Jiangsu cuisine |
| ⇒ 撿到籃裡就是菜 | [ jiǎn daò lán lǐ jiù shì caì ] all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom) |
| ⇒ 擇菜 | [ zhaí caì ] to pick the edible part of vegetables |
| ⇒ 攤黃菜 | [ tān huáng caì ] (dialect) scrambled eggs |
| ⇒ 時菜 | [ shí caì ] seasonal vegetable |
| ⇒ 暈菜 | [ yūn caì ] (dialect) to get confused, dumbfounded, to get dizzy |
| ⇒ 本幫菜 | [ běn bāng caì ] Shanghainese food |
| ⇒ 格蘭菜 | [ gé lán caì ] see 芥藍|芥蓝[gai4 lan2] |
| ⇒ 椰菜 | [ yē caì ] cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower |
| ⇒ 椰菜花 | [ yē caì huā ] cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) |
| ⇒ 榨菜 | [ zhà caì ] hot pickled mustard tuber |
| ⇒ 歇菜 | [ xiē caì ] Stop it! (Beijing and Internet slang), Game over!, You're dead! |
| ⇒ 水蕹菜 | [ shuǐ wèng caì ] water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia |
| ⇒ 油菜 | [ yoú caì ] oilseed rape (Brassica napus), flowering edible rape (Brassica chinensis var. oleifera) |
| ⇒ 油菜籽 | [ yoú caì zǐ ] oilseed rape (Brassica campestris), rapeseed, coleseed |
| ⇒ 油麥菜 | [ yoú maì caì ] Indian lettuce |
| ⇒ 泡菜 | [ paò caì ] pickled cabbage |
| ⇒ 洋白菜 | [ yáng baí caì ] cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries) |
| ⇒ 洋菜 | [ yáng caì ] agar |
| ⇒ 洋香菜 | [ yáng xiāng caì ] parsley |
| ⇒ 浙菜 | [ zhè caì ] Zhejiang cuisine |
| ⇒ 湘菜 | [ xiāng caì ] Hunan cuisine |
| ⇒ 滷菜 | [ lǔ caì ] pot-stewed dish |
| ⇒ 灰菜 | [ huī caì ] fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant |
| ⇒ 炒菜 | [ chaǒ caì ] to stir-fry, to do the cooking, stir-fried dish |
| ⇒ 炒菠菜 | [ chaǒ bō caì ] stir-fried spinach |
| ⇒ 烏塌菜 | [ wū tā caì ] rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis) |
| ⇒ 熟菜 | [ shú caì ] cooked food (ready to eat) |
| ⇒ 燒菜 | [ shaō caì ] to cook |
| ⇒ 燕菜精 | [ yàn caì jīng ] agar-agar powder |
| ⇒ 牛皮菜 | [ niú pí caì ] chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet |
| ⇒ 特價菜 | [ tè jià caì ] restaurant special, daily special |
| ⇒ 瓜菜 | [ guā caì ] fruit and vegetables |
| ⇒ 甕菜 | [ wèng caì ] variant of 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 甘藍菜 | [ gān lán caì ] cabbage |
| ⇒ 甜菜 | [ tián caì ] beet, beetroot |
| ⇒ 生菜 | [ shēng caì ] lettuce, raw fresh vegetables, greens |
| ⇒ 番菜 | [ fān caì ] (old) Western-style food, foreign food |
| ⇒ 白屈菜 | [ baí qū caì ] greater celandine |
| ⇒ 白菜 | [ baí caì ] Chinese cabbage, pak choi, CL:棵[ke1], 個|个[ge4] |
| ⇒ 白菜價 | [ baí caì jià ] lit. cabbage price, low price |
| ⇒ 白菜豆 | [ baí caì doù ] white kidney beans |
| ⇒ 皇帝菜 | [ huáng dì caì ] see 茼蒿[tong2 hao1] |
| ⇒ 看人下菜碟兒 | [ kàn rén xià caì dié ] (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom), not to treat everyone equally favorably |
| ⇒ 看菜吃飯 | [ kān caì chī fàn ] to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances, to live within one's means |
| ⇒ 看菜吃飯，量體裁衣 | [ kān caì chī fàn liáng tǐ caí yī ] eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure, to act according to actual circumstances, to live within one's means |
| ⇒ 石花菜 | [ shí huā caì ] Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted |
| ⇒ 秋菜 | [ qiū caì ] autumn vegetables |
| ⇒ 空心菜 | [ kōng xīn caì ] see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 端菜 | [ duān caì ] to serve food |
| ⇒ 粵菜 | [ yuè caì ] Cantonese cuisine |
| ⇒ 紅牛皮菜 | [ hóng niú pí caì ] chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet |
| ⇒ 紅菜頭 | [ hóng caì toú ] beet, beetroot, (dialect) carrot |
| ⇒ 紅頭菜 | [ hóng toú caì ] beetroot |
| ⇒ 素菜 | [ sù caì ] vegetable dish |
| ⇒ 紫菜 | [ zǐ caì ] flavored roasted seaweed, generic term for edible seaweed, Japanese: nori |
| ⇒ 紫菜包飯 | [ zǐ caì baō fàn ] gimbap (Korean rice roll similar in appearance to sushi), kimbap |
| ⇒ 紫菜屬 | [ zǐ caì shǔ ] Porphyra (genus of edible seaweed) |
| ⇒ 紫菜苔 | [ zǐ caì taí ] purple cabbage, Brassica campestris var. purpurea |
| ⇒ 綠花椰菜 | [ lǜ huā yē caì ] broccoli |
| ⇒ 綠花菜 | [ lǜ huā caì ] broccoli |
| ⇒ 綠菜花 | [ lǜ caì huā ] broccoli |
| ⇒ 老虎菜 | [ laǒ hǔ caì ] "Tiger Vegetable Salad," Northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek |
| ⇒ 芥菜 | [ jiè caì ] leaf mustard (Brassica juncea), also pr. [gai4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 芥菜籽 | [ jiè caì zǐ ] mustard seed |
| ⇒ 花椰菜 | [ huā yē caì ] cauliflower |
| ⇒ 花菜 | [ huā caì ] cauliflower |
| ⇒ 芹菜 | [ qín caì ] celery (Apium graveolens) |
| ⇒ 苣蕒菜 | [ qǔ maǐ caì ] endive, field sow-thistle, Sonchus brachyotus |
| ⇒ 苦菜花 | [ kǔ caì huā ] Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang |
| ⇒ 苦蕒菜 | [ kǔ maǐ caì ] Ixeris denticulata |
| ⇒ 荇菜 | [ xìng caì ] yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum) |
| ⇒ 莜麥菜 | [ yoú maì caì ] variant of 油麥菜|油麦菜[you2 mai4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 莧菜 | [ xiàn caì ] amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus), Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus) |
| ⇒ 菠菜 | [ bō caì ] spinach, CL:棵[ke1], (slang) alternative term for 博彩[bo2 cai3], lottery |
| ⇒ 菾菜 | [ tián caì ] variant of 甜菜[tian2 cai4] |
| ⇒ 葷菜 | [ hūn caì ] non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc) |
| ⇒ 蒓菜 | [ chún caì ] Brasenia schreberi |
| ⇒ 蒲菜 | [ pú caì ] edible rhizome of cattail 香蒲[xiang1 pu2] |
| ⇒ 蓊菜 | [ wěng caì ] see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 蓋菜 | [ gaì caì ] leaf mustard |
| ⇒ 蓴菜 | [ chún caì ] Brasenia schreberi |
| ⇒ 蔬菜 | [ shū caì ] vegetables, CL:種|种[zhong3] |
| ⇒ 蕨菜 | [ jué caì ] fiddlehead, edible fern fronds |
| ⇒ 蕹菜 | [ wèng caì ] water spinach, ong choy, swamp cabbage, water convolvulus, water morning-glory, Ipomoea aquatica (botany) |
| ⇒ 蕺菜 | [ jí caì ] Houttuynia cordata |
| ⇒ 薺菜 | [ jì caì ] shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
| ⇒ 藤菜 | [ téng caì ] see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 蘇菜 | [ sū caì ] Jiangsu cuisine |
| ⇒ 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛 | [ luó bo baí caì gè yoǔ suǒ aì ] one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom), to each his own |
| ⇒ 蘿蔔青菜，各有所愛 | [ luó bo qīng caì gè yoǔ suǒ aì ] see 蘿蔔白菜，各有所愛|萝卜白菜，各有所爱[luo2 bo5 bai2 cai4 , ge4 you3 suo3 ai4] |
| ⇒ 蠶菜 | [ cán caì ] Malabar spinach, Basella alba |
| ⇒ 裙帶菜 | [ qún daì caì ] wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed |
| ⇒ 西洋菜 | [ xī yáng caì ] watercress (Nasturtium officinale) |
| ⇒ 豆瓣菜 | [ doù bàn caì ] watercress (Nasturtium officinale) |
| ⇒ 豆芽菜 | [ doù yá caì ] bean sprouts |
| ⇒ 通心菜 | [ tōng xīn caì ] see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 通菜 | [ tōng caì ] see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 酒菜 | [ jiǔ caì ] food and drink, food to accompany wine |
| ⇒ 酸菜 | [ suān caì ] pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage |
| ⇒ 野菜 | [ yě caì ] wild herb, potherb |
| ⇒ 金針菜 | [ jīn zhēn caì ] day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine |
| ⇒ 開胃菜 | [ kaī weì caì ] starter, appetizer |
| ⇒ 閩菜 | [ mǐn caì ] Fujian cuisine |
| ⇒ 雪菜 | [ xuě caì ] see 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xue3 li3 hong2] |
| ⇒ 青江菜 | [ qīng jiāng caì ] bok choy, Shanghai pak choy, Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis) |
| ⇒ 青花椰菜 | [ qīng huā yē caì ] broccoli |
| ⇒ 青花菜 | [ qīng huā caì ] broccoli |
| ⇒ 青菜 | [ qīng caì ] green vegetables, Chinese cabbage |
| ⇒ 面有菜色 | [ miàn yoǔ caì sè ] to look famished |
| ⇒ 韓國泡菜 | [ hán guó paò caì ] kimchi, Korean pickled cabbage |
| ⇒ 韓式泡菜 | [ hán shì paò caì ] kimchi |
| ⇒ 韭菜 | [ jiǔ caì ] garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives, (fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives) |
| ⇒ 韭菜花 | [ jiǔ caì huā ] chives (Allium tuberosum) |
| ⇒ 飯菜 | [ fàn caì ] food |
| ⇒ 香菜 | [ xiāng caì ] coriander, cilantro, Coriandrum sativum |
| ⇒ 香菜葉 | [ xiāng caì yè ] coriander leaf |
| ⇒ 高麗菜 | [ gaō lí caì ] cabbage, CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4], Taiwan pr. [gao1 li4 cai4] |
| ⇒ 髮菜 | [ fà caì ] long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae, also called faat choy or hair moss |
| ⇒ 魚生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安 | [ yú shēng huǒ roù shēng tán qīng caì doù fu baǒ píng ān ] fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy |
| ⇒ 魯菜 | [ lǔ caì ] Shandong cuisine |
| ⇒ 鮮菜 | [ xiān caì ] fresh vegetable |
| ⇒ 鹹菜 | [ xián caì ] salted vegetables, pickles |
| ⇒ 麒麟菜 | [ qí lín caì ] eucheuma, a type of red algae (used in TCM) |
| ⇒ 黃花菜 | [ huáng huā caì ] citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni), golden needles (edible flower) |
| ⇒ 黃花菜都涼了 | [ huáng huā caì doū liáng le ] lit. the dishes are cold (idiom), fig. to arrive late, to take one's sweet time |
| ⇒ 點菜 | [ diǎn caì ] to order dishes (in a restaurant) |
| ⇒ 龍鬚菜 | [ lóng xū caì ] asparagus, (Tw) young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜[fo2 shou3 gua1] |
