大菜

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (大菜)		大	菜
simp. #(大菜)		大	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàcài

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ coi³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-chhài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dua⁷ cai³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶du-tshe; ⁶da-tshe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàcài
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: dà-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahtsay
    • Palladius: дацай (dacaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ coi³
    • Yale: daaih choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-chhài
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-tshài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxzhaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² t͡sʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰai²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dua⁷ cai³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tuā tshài
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tua¹¹ t͡sʰai²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶du-tshe; ⁶da-tshe
    • MiniDict: du^去 tshe; da^去 tshe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³du-tshe; ³da-tshe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /du²² t͡sʰe⁴⁴/, /da²² t͡sʰe⁴⁴/

Note: ⁶da-tshe - Western-style food.

Noun

大菜

1. main course of a banquet (typically a whole duck or chicken)
2. feast; banquet
3. Western-style food
4. (Teochew) Brassica juncea, Chinese mustard

Synonyms

• (feast):

• 夜宴 (yèyàn, “evening banquet”) (literary)
• 宴席 (yànxí)
• 宴會／宴会 (yànhuì)
• 筵宴 (yányàn) (literary)
• 筵席 (yánxí)
• 酒宴 (jiǔyàn)
• 酒席 (jiǔxí)
• 酒水 (Wu)
• 飲宴／饮宴 (yǐnyàn)
• 饗宴／飨宴 (xiǎngyàn)

 

• (Western-style food):

• 大餐 (dàcān)
• 西菜 (xīcài)
• 西餐 (xīcān)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 西餐 (“Western-style food; Western cuisine”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		西餐, 西菜
Mandarin	Taiwan	西餐
	Singapore	西餐
Cantonese	Guangzhou	西餐, 西菜 dated
	Hong Kong	西餐
Gan	Nanchang	西餐
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	西菜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	西餐
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	西餐
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	西餐
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	西餐
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	西餐
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	西餐
Southern Min	Xiamen	西餐, 番仔菜 dated
	Quanzhou	西餐
	Zhangzhou	西餐
	Tainan	西餐
	Penang (Hokkien)	紅毛食
	Singapore (Hokkien)	紅毛食
	Manila (Hokkien)	西餐
Wu	Shanghai	西餐, 西菜, 大菜
	Suzhou	大菜
	Hangzhou	大菜
	Ningbo	大菜
	Wenzhou	大菜

• (Brassica juncea):

Dialectal synonyms of 芥菜 (“Chinese mustard greens”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		芥菜
Mandarin	Taiwan	芥菜
	Chengdu	芥菜, 衝菜
	Singapore	芥菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	芥菜
	Hong Kong	芥菜
	Singapore (Guangfu)	芥菜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	春不老
Southern Min	Anxi	芥菜
	Tainan	芥菜
	Penang (Hokkien)	芥菜
	Singapore (Hokkien)	芥菜
	Shantou	大菜
	Jieyang	大菜
	Singapore (Teochew)	大菜
Wu	Shanghai	芥菜

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “Western-style food”):

• 中國菜／中国菜 (Zhōngguócài)
• 中餐 (zhōngcān)

 

Derived terms

• 六月大菜——假有心