cài

菜

dish / vegetable

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Meaning, words & where you learn it

Taught in your lessons 课程

饮食与点菜Lesson 4 · Food & Ordering vocab 在饭馆Lesson 18 · At the Restaurant 吃饭了吗HSK 3.0 · Lesson 6 · Have You Eaten? vocab

Words with 菜

菜单 cài dān menu HSK 2
白菜 bái cài Chinese cabbage; pak choi HSK 3
蔬菜 shū cài vegetables HSK 5
菜市场 cài shì chǎng food market HSK 7–9

Examples from your lessons

  • 好的。你要吃什么菜？ Sure. What dish would you like? Lesson 4
  • 请给我一碗米饭和一个菜。多少钱？ Please give me a bowl of rice and one dish. How much? Lesson 4
  • 服务员，我们要点菜。 Waiter, we'd like to order. Lesson 18
  • 这个饭店的菜很好吃。 The food at this restaurant is very good. Lesson 106
  • 我要一个米饭和一个肉菜。 I'll have rice and a meat dish. Lesson 106
  • 这些菜多少钱？ How much are these dishes? 在饭店

Character facts

Radical
艹 grass, weed, plant, herb
Parts
艹 + 采
Structure
Top–bottom
Unicode
U+83DC

Pictophonetic: plant

Same radical 艹
huā 花 chá 茶 yào 药 jié 节 lán 蓝 cǎo 草 luò 落 kǔ 苦
Same sound
cái 才 cāi 猜 cǎi 踩 cái 裁 cǎi 采
Also HSK 1
de 的 le 了 wǒ 我 shì 是 nǐ 你 zài 在 bù 不 yǒu 有