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 cài dish (type of food) / vegetable / cuisine / CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4] / (coll.) (one's) type / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor
Results beginning with 菜
 cài dān menu / CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
 cài niǎo (coll.) sb new to a particular subject / rookie / beginner / newbie
 cài sè dish / lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) / emaciated look (from malnutrition)
 cài yáo vegetable and meat dishes / dish
 cài pǔ menu (in restaurant) / recipe / cookbook
 cài dāo vegetable knife / kitchen knife / cleaver / CL:把[ba3]
 cài xì (regional) cuisine
 cài yuán vegetable garden
 cài shì dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe)
 cài chǎng food market
 cài huā cauliflower / gonorrhea
 cài guǎn (dialect) restaurant
 cài dì vegetable field
 cài yóu rapeseed oil / canola oil
 cài nóng vegetable farmer
 cài zǐ vegetable seeds / rapeseed
 cài xīn choy sum / Chinese flowering cabbage / stem of any Chinese cabbage
 cài shì food market
 cài shū greens / vegetables / vegetable side dish
 cài dòu kidney bean
 cài guā snake melon / loofah
 cài niú beef cattle (grown for meat)
 cài pǔ vegetable field / vegetable bed
 cài bǎn chopping board / cutting board / CL:張|张[zhang1]
 cài jī (slang) total noob
 cài pú dried, pickled white radish
 cài qí vegetable field / vegetable bed
 cài rú greens / green vegetables
 cài tóu (Tw) turnip / radish
 cài yàn agar-agar
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 cài shì chǎng food market
 cài dān lán menu bar (computing)
 cài lán zi vegetable or food basket / (fig.) food supply
 cài bāo zi steamed bun stuffed with vegetables / (fig.) useless person / a good-for-nothing
 cài dān tiáo menu bar (of a computer application)
 cài dūn zi chopping board
 cài shì chǎng míng (Tw) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace)
 cài shì zǐ míng (Tw) popular given name (one that will turn many heads if you shout it at a marketplace) (from Taiwanese 菜市仔名, Tai-lo pr. [tshài-tshī-á-miâ], where 菜市仔 / means "marketplace")
Approximate Results for 菜
A菜 A cài (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])
 shū cài vegetables / CL:種|种[zhong3]
 fàn cài food
 bái cài Chinese cabbage / pak choi / CL:棵[ke1], 個|个[ge4]
 xiǎo cài appetizer / small side dish / easy job / piece of cake / see also 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2]
 qīng cài green vegetables / Chinese cabbage
 bō cài spinach / CL:棵[ke1] / (slang) alternative term for 博彩[bo2 cai3], lottery
 pào cài pickled cabbage
 Chuān cài Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
 diǎn cài to order dishes (in a restaurant)
 qín cài celery (Apium graveolens)
 jiǔ cài 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)
 jiǔ cài food and drink / food to accompany wine
 yóu cài oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / flowering edible rape (Brassica chinensis var. oleifera)
 zuò cài to cook / cooking
 chǎo cài to stir-fry / to do the cooking / stir-fried dish
 yě cài wild herb / potherb
 xiāng cài coriander / cilantro / Coriandrum sativum
 suān cài pickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
 zǐ cài flavored roasted seaweed / generic term for edible seaweed / Japanese: nori
 xián cài salted vegetables / pickles
 míng cài famous dishes / specialty dishes
 Yuè cài Cantonese cuisine
 shēng cài lettuce / raw fresh vegetables / greens
 shàng cài to serve food
 zhǔ cài main course
 sù cài vegetable dish
 zhà cài hot pickled mustard tuber
 tián cài beet / beetroot
 shèng cài leftovers (food)
 Xiāng cài Hunan cuisine
 shāo cài to cook
 jiè cài leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) / also pr. [gai4 cai4]
 jì cài shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
 yūn cài (dialect) to get confused / dumbfounded / to get dizzy
 guā cài fruit and vegetables
 xiàn cài amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus) / Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
 hūn cài non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
 huā cài cauliflower
 jué cài fiddlehead / edible fern fronds
 Lǔ cài Shandong cuisine
 lěng cài cold dish / cold food
 xiān cài fresh vegetable
 gān cài dried vegetable
 fà cài long thread moss (Nostoc flagelliforme), an edible algae / also called faat choy or hair moss
 lǔ cài pot-stewed dish
 bāo cài cabbage
 yē cài cabbage / broccoli / cauliflower
 Huī cài Anhui cuisine
 duān cài to serve food
 Mǐn cài Fujian cuisine
 chún cài Brasenia schreberi
 dōng cài preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens
 shú cài cooked food (ready to eat)
 Zhè cài Zhejiang cuisine
 bīng cài ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
 cán cài Malabar spinach / Basella alba
 chū cài (at a restaurant) to bring a dish to a customer / to serve food
 fān cài (old) Western-style food / foreign food
 gài cài leaf mustard
 guó cài national food specialty
 huī cài fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
 jí cài Houttuynia cordata
 jǐn cài violet (botany)
 pú cài edible rhizome of cattail 香蒲[xiang1 pu2]
 qiū cài autumn vegetables
 shí cài mixed vegetables
 shí cài seasonal vegetable
 Sū cài Jiangsu cuisine
 Tái cài Taiwanese food
 téng cài see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 tián cài variant of 甜菜[tian2 cai4]
 tōng cài see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 wèng cài variant of 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 wěng cài see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 wèng cài water spinach / ong choy / swamp cabbage / water convolvulus / water morning-glory / Ipomoea aquatica (botany)
 xiē cài Stop it! (Beijing and Internet slang) / Game over! / You're dead!
 xìng cài Nymphoides
 xìng cài yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
 xuě cài see 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xue3 li3 hong2]
 yáng cài agar
 Yáng cài Jiangsu cuisine
 yè cài leaf vegetables
 zhái cài to pick the edible part of vegetables
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 dà bái cài bok choy / Chinese cabbage / Brassica pekinensis / CL:棵[ke1]
 jiā cháng cài home cooking
 xiǎo bái cài bok choy / Chinese cabbage / Brassica chinensis / CL:棵[ke1]
 yóu cài zǐ oilseed rape (Brassica campestris) / rapeseed / coleseed
 huáng huā cài citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni) / golden needles (edible flower)
 juǎn xīn cài variant of 卷心菜[juan3 xin1 cai4]
 zhāo pái cài signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
 kōng xīn cài see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 Zhōng guó cài Chinese cuisine
 huā yē cài cauliflower
 gāo lí cài cabbage / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4] / Taiwan pr. [gao1 li4 cai4]
 kāi wèi cài starter / appetizer
 ná shǒu cài specialty (dish)
 yuán bái cài round white cabbage (i.e. Western cabbage)
 jiǔ cài huā chives (Allium tuberosum)
 bái cài jià lit. cabbage price / low price
 bāo xīn cài cabbage
 Kǔ Cài huā Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英[Feng2 De2 ying1] loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
 yáng bái cài cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
 jīn zhēn cài day lily (Hemerocallis), used in Chinese medicine and cuisine
 qún dài cài wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), an edible seaweed
 bái cài dòu white kidney beans
 bái huā cài African spiderflower
 bái qū cài greater celandine
 bǎo tǎ cài Chinese artichoke / Stachys sieboldii
 běn bāng cài Shanghainese food
 chǎo bō cài stir-fried spinach
 chuān cài tīng a Sichuan restaurant
 chū cài xiù dinner show / dinner and floor show
 dòu bàn cài watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
 dòu yá cài bean sprouts
 gān lán cài cabbage
 gé lán cài see 芥藍|芥蓝[gai4 lan2]
 hóng cài tóu beet / beetroot / (dialect) carrot
 hóng tóu cài beetroot
 huáng dì cài see 茼蒿[tong2 hao1]
 jiā xiāng cài regional dish / local cuisine
 jiè cài zǐ mustard seed
 juǎn xīn cài variant of 卷心菜|卷心菜[juan3 xin1 cai4]
 jù mǎi cài endive / field sow-thistle / Sonchus brachyotus
 kǔ mǎi cài Ixeris denticulata
 lǎo hǔ cài "Tiger Vegetable Salad," Northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek
 lóng xū cài asparagus / (Tw) young shoots of the chayote vine 佛手瓜[fo2 shou3 gua1]
绿 lu:4 cài huā broccoli
绿 lu:4 huā cài broccoli
 níng huā cài gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
 niú pí cài chard (Beta vulgaris), a foliage beet
 qiān qū cài purple loosestrife
 qí lín cài eucheuma, a type of red algae (used in TCM)
 qīng huā cài broccoli
 qīng jiāng cài bok choy / Shanghai pak choy / Chinese mustard (Brassica rapa Chinensis)
 qǔ mǎi cài endive / field sow-thistle / Sonchus brachyotus
 shàng cài xiù dinner show / dinner and floor show
 shān yú cài variant of 山萮菜[shan1 yu2 cai4]
 shān yú cài wasabi (Eutrema wasabi Maxim), a kind of fern used in Japanese cooking
 shí huā cài Gelidium amansii, species of red algae from which agar is extracted
 shuǐ wèng cài water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
 tā kē cài Brassica narinosa (broadbeaked mustard) / Chinese flat cabbage
 tān huáng cài (dialect) scrambled eggs
 tè jià cài restaurant special / daily special
 tōng xīn cài see 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
 wá wa cài baby Chinese cabbage (mini-sized variety)
 wū tā cài rosette bok choy (Brassica rapa var. rosularis)
 xià jiǔ cài a dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks
 xiāng cài yè coriander leaf
 xiǎo cài r erhua variant of 小菜[xiao3 cai4]
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