菜

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 采.

Han character[edit]

菜 (radical 140 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿月木 (TBD), four-corner 44904)

  1. vegetable, vegetables
  2. dish, order
  3. food
  4. cuisine

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1038, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31184
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1496, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3236, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+83DC

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

菜 (jyutping coi3, Yale choi3)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

菜 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

菜 (hangeul 채, revised chae, McCune-Reischauer ch'ae, Yale chay)

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

菜 (pinyin cài (cai4), Wade-Giles ts'ai4)

Compounds[edit]

  • A菜 Taiwanese word for 山莴苣 (shān wōjù) - Indian Lettuce (bot. Lactuca indica L.)
  • 冬寒菜 (dōngháncài) or 冬葵 (dōngcài) - Chinese Mallow, Cluster Mallow, bot. Malva verticillata L.
  • 海菜 (hǎicài) - (edible) seaweed
  • 芽菜 (yá cài) - mungbean sprout, soybean sprout; literally: "tooth vegetable"

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

菜 (thái)

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