菜
HSK 1freq #1448
Meanings
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- 1.vegetable; greens (CL:棵[kē])
- 2.dish (of food) (CL:样[yàng],道[dào],盘[pán])
- 3.(of one's skills etc) weak; poor
- 4.(coll.) (one's) type
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Wiktionary
- 1.vegetable; greens (Classifier: 棵 m; 根 m; 條／条 c; 樖 c)
- 2.brassica crop
- 3.dish; course (Classifier: 盤／盘 m; 道 m; 味 m)
- 4.cuisine; (type of) food
- 5.grocery
- 6.(one's) type; cup of tea(Classifier: 條／条 c)
- 7.bad; inferior; disappointing; below average
- 8.girlfriend (Classifier: 條／条 c; 樖 c)
- 9.a surname, Cai or Tsai
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰɯːs): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ). From 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ, “to gather; to pluck”) + nominalizing *-s, literally “what is gathered or plucked” (Sagart, 1999; Schuessler, 2007). See 采 for more.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
她是我的菜。
She's my type.
他是我的菜!
He is my type!
請給我菜單。
Please give me the menu.
請給我菜單。
Please show me the menu.
麻煩給我菜單。
Can I see the menu, please?
你们有什么菜？
What kind of food do you have?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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