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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
menu / CL: , 張|张
HSK 2
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
food market
HSK 7-9
(regional) cuisine
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
to serve food
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
food
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
fruit and vegetables
vegetable and meat dishes; dish
(dialect) restaurant
food market
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟
cabbage
Fujian cuisine
pot-stewed dish
culinary dish
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
menu (in restaurant) / recipe / cookbook
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species / (dialect) bok choy
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
side dish
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)
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
Hunan cuisine
to cook / cooking
food and drink / food to accompany wine
coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
vegetable seeds / rapeseed
cold dish / cold food
choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage
famous dishes / specialty dishes
to cook
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
vegetable field
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
to serve food
vegetable garden
vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:
pickled cabbage
cauliflower
chopping board; cutting board / CL: 張|张
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
Anhui cuisine
salted vegetables / pickles
wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
see 蕹菜
celery (Apium graveolens)
dish / lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) / emaciated look (from malnutrition)
hot pickled mustard tuber
Cantonese cuisine
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *莼* | 莼* | *莼
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
cauliflower / gonorrhea
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
vegetable dish
food market
fiddlehead / edible fern fronds
snake melon / loofah
greens / vegetables / vegetable side dish
kidney bean
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *苣* | 苣* | *苣
used in 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜 / Taiwan pr. [ju4]
to pick the edible part of vegetables
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
violet (botany)
cooked food (ready to eat)
asparagus / (Tw) young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜
chard (Beta vulgaris)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
cabbage
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
endive (Cichorium endivia) / field sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
mussels (as food)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荬* | 荬* | *荬
leaf mustard
vegetable field / vegetable bed
autumn vegetables
Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis), perennial plant with an edible rhizome
Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted
beef cattle (grown for meat)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *萮* | 萮* | *萮
used in 山萮菜
vegetable field / vegetable bed
Shandong cuisine
to look famished
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) / Chinese flat cabbage
wild herb / potherb
lit. to eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
variant of 卷心菜
(old) Western-style food / foreign food

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