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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
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
food market
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
Ixeris denticulata
to serve food
creamed cauliflower
Taiwanese food
(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
side dish; side order
kimchi
fruit and vegetables
wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
beetroot
endive (Cichorium endivia) / field sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
food
agar-agar powder
chard (Beta vulgaris)
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟
cabbage
greens / vegetables / vegetable side 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
side dish
garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives / (coll.) naive or easily exploited people (esp. small investors or consumers), likened to chives that can be repeatedly harvested for profit
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
Hunan cuisine
to cook / cooking
choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage
food and drink / food to accompany wine
coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
vegetable seeds / rapeseed
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
(slang) South Korea
vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:
pickled cabbage
cauliflower
chopping board; cutting board / CL: 張|张
sauerkraut
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
Anhui cuisine
salted vegetables / pickles
see 蕹菜
celery (Apium graveolens)
dish / lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) / emaciated look (from malnutrition)
hot pickled mustard tuber
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
Cantonese cuisine
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
cauliflower / gonorrhea
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
vegetable dish
food market
edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
snake melon / loofah
cold dish / cold food
autumn vegetables
(slang) total noob
vegetable and meat dishes; dish
kidney bean
wasabi
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
to pick the edible part of vegetables
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
Fujian cuisine
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
violet (botany)
cooked food (ready to eat)
greens / green vegetables
chard (Beta vulgaris)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
cabbage
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
(dialect) restaurant
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
mussels (as food)
leaf mustard
vegetable field / vegetable bed
Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis), perennial plant with an edible rhizome
pot-stewed dish
beef cattle (grown for meat)
vegetable field / vegetable bed
Shandong cuisine

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