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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
menu / CL: , 張|张
HSK 2
vegetables / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
broccoli
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
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
kidney bean
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
a small appetizer / a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
(dialect) to stop functioning
(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
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
to serve food
(coll.) sb new to a particular subject / rookie / beginner / newbie
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:
context menu (computing)
(regional) cuisine
Chinese cuisine
food market
HSK 7-9
leftovers (food)
national food specialty
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
menu (in restaurant) / recipe / cookbook
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
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
main course
to cook / cooking
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
dinner show / dinner and floor show
(dialect) to get confused; to be dumbfounded; to get dizzy
(Tw) radish, esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜 / CL:
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
kimchi
food
Jiangsu cuisine
vegetable dish
broccoli
baby bok choy / Shanghai bok choy
cold dish / cold food
(Tw) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace)
Hunan cuisine
vegetable seeds / rapeseed
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
seasonal vegetable
a type of rapeseed plant (Brassica rapa) that yields a leafy green vegetable similar to baby bok choy
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
bean sprouts
cabbage
vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
vegetable and meat dishes; dish
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
leaf vegetable; leafy greens
salted vegetables / pickles
Indian lettuce
see 茼蒿
cauliflower
(coll.) very low price; dirt cheap price
(dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom) / not to treat everyone equally favorably
Fujian cuisine
(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])
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
chard (Beta vulgaris)
beet; beetroot / (dialect) carrot
vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:
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
see 蕹菜
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
greater celandine
side dish
home cooking
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
(slang) total noob
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽
pickled cabbage
pot-stewed dish
cooked food (ready to eat)
food market
dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe)

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