菜 (cài): meaning and stroke order
菜 (cài) means vegetable; greens (CL:棵), dish (of food) (样,道盘), (of one's skills etc) weak; poor.
菜
- Simplified
- 菜
- Traditional
- 菜 (same form)
- Pinyin
- cài
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Stroke order of 菜
菜
- cài vegetable; greens (CL:棵[ke1]); dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2])
- 11 strokes
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Meaning of 菜
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cài
- vegetable; greens (CL:棵[ke1])
- dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2])
- (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
- (coll.) (one's) type
Radical and structure
- 菜
- Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 12 strokes · 艹 on top, 采 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 菜
- 菜单 cài dān menu; CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
- 点菜 diǎn cài to order dishes (in a restaurant)
- 蔬菜 shū cài vegetables
菜 in our stories
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河里的水很少，菜也快死了。
hé lǐ de shuǐ hěn shǎo cài yě kuài sǐ le
There was very little water in the river, and the vegetables were nearly dead.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
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她吓了一跳：“这个菜里有……夫妻？”
tā xià le yí tiào zhè gè cài lǐ yǒu fūqī
She jumps: "There's a … couple in this dish?"
From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
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一位美食作家在网上写了一篇文章，说他的菜越来越咸，服务也越来越差。
yí wèi měishí zuòjiā zài wǎngshang xiě le yì piān wénzhāng shuō tā de cài yuèláiyuè xián fúwù yě yuèláiyuè chà
A food writer published an article online saying his dishes were getting saltier and the service worse.
From the story A second chance HSK 5
Stories using 菜
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
- A second chance HSK 5
- The banquet that never ended HSK 6
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).