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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
salted vegetables / pickles
(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])
Cantonese cuisine
spinach (CL:) / (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩)
kimchi
see 茼蒿
gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
to grow vegetables
side dish
chard (Beta vulgaris)
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:)
to order dishes (in a restaurant)
home cooking
food and drink / food to accompany wine
cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:顆|颗,個|个) / Taiwan pr. [gao1li4cai4]
cabbage
pickled cabbage
ready-made meal
lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
edible seaweed of genus Porphyra or genus Pyropia, esp. one used to make dried sheets of nori
food
to buy groceries
main course
to cook / cooking
to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
cold dish / cold food
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:
leaf mustard
green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
to serve food
see 蕹菜
bean sprouts
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
leftovers (food)
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
(sugar) beet / (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
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
cabbage
water spinach / ong choy / swamp cabbage / water convolvulus / water morning-glory / Ipomoea aquatica (botany)
leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4cai4]
asparagus / (Tw) young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜
coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
cabbage; broccoli; cauliflower
specialty (dish)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) / CL:
wild herb / potherb
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
to cook
mussels (as food)
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / rape greens; leafy greens of certain Brassica species / (dialect) bok choy
round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
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
edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
violet (botany)
celery (Apium graveolens)
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
endive (Cichorium endivia) / field sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
water shield (Brasenia schreberi), an edible water plant
(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
famous dishes / specialty dishes
Houttuynia cordata
Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) / Chinese flat cabbage
preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
cooked food (ready to eat)
(old) Western-style food / foreign food
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted
variant of 卷心菜
variant of 蕹菜
see 蕹菜
(dialect) scrambled eggs
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
(dialect) to stop functioning
leaf vegetable; leafy greens
starter / appetizer
side dish; side order
kimchi
Hunan cuisine

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