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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
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vegetables / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
broccoli
leafy green vegetable; leafy greens
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
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
(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
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:
Chinese cuisine
leftovers (food)
national food specialty
baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
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
pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
main course
to cook / cooking
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
(dialect) to get confused; to be dumbfounded; to get dizzy
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
Hunan cuisine
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
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
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)
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
day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
pickled cabbage
pot-stewed dish
cooked food (ready to eat)
to cook
celery (Apium graveolens)
leaf mustard
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
Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis), perennial plant with an edible rhizome
Jiangsu cuisine
parsley
(old) Western-style food / foreign food
to grow vegetables
beetroot
wild herb / potherb
kimchi
to pick the edible part of vegetables
hot pickled mustard tuber
fresh vegetable
violet (botany)
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
Zhejiang cuisine
rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
cauliflower
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
fruit and vegetables
bok choy / Shanghai pak choy / Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis)

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