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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
vegetables / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
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
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
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
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
cold dish / cold food
famous dishes / specialty dishes
to cook
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
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
pickled cabbage
cauliflower
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
Anhui cuisine
salted vegetables / pickles
wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
see 蕹菜
celery (Apium graveolens)
hot pickled mustard tuber
Cantonese cuisine
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
vegetable dish
fiddlehead / edible fern fronds
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
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)
chard (Beta vulgaris)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
cabbage
endive (Cichorium endivia) / field sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
mussels (as food)
leaf mustard
autumn vegetables
Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis), perennial plant with an edible rhizome
Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted
Shandong cuisine
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) / Chinese flat cabbage
wild herb / potherb
variant of 卷心菜
(old) Western-style food / foreign food
beetroot
main course
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
to buy groceries
(botany) arugula; rocket; roquette (subspecies Eruca vesicaria sativa)
fresh vegetable
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
(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])
Chinese cabbage; napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis) / CL:
leftovers (food)
seasonal vegetable
water spinach / ong choy / swamp cabbage / water convolvulus / water morning-glory / Ipomoea aquatica (botany)
side dish; side order
(dialect) to get confused; to be dumbfounded; to get dizzy
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
agar
dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks; snack eaten with drinks
Jiangsu cuisine
ready-made meal
oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
starter / appetizer
(dialect) to stop functioning
mixed vegetables
specialty (dish)
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
Chinese cuisine
Jiangsu cuisine
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
kimchi
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:顆|颗,個|个) / Taiwan pr. [gao1li4cai4]

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