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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
(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])
dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe)
to grow vegetables
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)
chives (Allium tuberosum)
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:顆|颗,個|个) / Taiwan pr. [gao1li4cai4]
pickled cabbage
coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
dish / lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) / emaciated look (from malnutrition)
kidney bean
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
cauliflower / gonorrhea
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
side dish
food
to buy groceries
home cooking
main course
to cook / cooking
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:
appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟
Chinese cuisine
Chinese cabbage; napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / CL:
menu (in restaurant) / recipe / cookbook
(Tw) radish, esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜 / CL:
vegetable garden
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
to serve food
see 蕹菜
salted vegetables / pickles
bean sprouts
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
leftovers (food)
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
cutting board; chopping board
food market
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
leaf mustard
menu bar (computing)
vegetable dish
shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
dried vegetable
wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
to pick the edible part of vegetables
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
cabbage
water spinach / ong choy / swamp cabbage / water convolvulus / water morning-glory / Ipomoea aquatica (botany)
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
steamed bun stuffed with vegetables / (fig.) useless person / a good-for-nothing
asparagus / (Tw) young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
specialty (dish)
greens / green vegetables
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
wild herb / potherb
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage
vegetable field / vegetable bed
mussels (as food)
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species / (dialect) bok choy
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
cauliflower
pot-stewed dish
hot pickled mustard tuber
Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis), perennial plant with an edible rhizome
fiddlehead / edible fern fronds
violet (botany)
snake melon / loofah
celery (Apium graveolens)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
(dialect) restaurant
vegetable field
chopping block
endive (Cichorium endivia) / field sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
food and drink / food to accompany wine
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
cabbage
Cantonese cuisine
food market
famous dishes / specialty dishes
Houttuynia cordata
Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) / Chinese flat cabbage
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens

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