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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
broccoli
broccoli
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
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
Chinese cuisine
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
national food specialty
(dialect) to stop functioning
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
(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
to serve food
to buy groceries
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:
Indian lettuce
pot-stewed dish
leftovers (food)
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟
(at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer / to serve food
starter / appetizer
kimchi
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:顆|颗,個|个) / Taiwan pr. [gao1li4cai4]
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
chard (Beta vulgaris)
main course
to cook / cooking
all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
salted vegetables / pickles
vegetable dish
broccoli
baby bok choy / Shanghai bok choy
cold dish / cold food
(slang) entertaining content such as Internet videos and TV shows that people watch while eating
Hunan cuisine
to cook
a type of rapeseed plant (Brassica rapa) that yields a leafy green vegetable similar to baby bok choy
bean sprouts
cabbage
regional dish / local cuisine
Cantonese cuisine
tiger salad, a northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek
(dialect) to get confused; to be dumbfounded; to get dizzy
see 茼蒿
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
cauliflower
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
Jiangsu cuisine
to grow vegetables
(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])
dried vegetable
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
mussels (as food)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
ready-made meal
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
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
greater celandine
side dish
home cooking
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
pickled cabbage
cooked food (ready to eat)
kimchi
celery (Apium graveolens)
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species / (dialect) bok choy
coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
seasonal vegetable
parsley
(old) Western-style food / foreign food
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
wild herb / potherb
hot pickled mustard tuber
violet (botany)
oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
to pick the edible part of vegetables

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