素菜

Chinese

		plain; element	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (素菜)		素	菜
simp. #(素菜)		素	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): sùcài

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄞˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): su⁴ cai⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³ coi³
• Gan (Wiktionary): 'su⁴ cai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sò͘-chhài
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵su-tshe / ⁵sou-tshe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sùcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sùcài
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: sù-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suhtsay
    • Palladius: суцай (sucaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: su⁴ cai⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: sucai
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su²¹³ t͡sʰai²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou³ coi³
    • Yale: sou choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³ tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou³ coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'su⁴ cai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈsu³⁵ t͡sʰai²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘-chhài
    • Tâi-lô: sòo-tshài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sorzhaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sʰai²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵su-tshe
    • MiniDict: su^去 tshe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²su-tshe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /su³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
  • (Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁵sou-tshe
    • MiniDict: sou^去 tshe
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /səu⁵² t͡sʰe³³/

Note: ⁵su tshe - Shanghainese, "vegetables", also written as 蔬菜.

Noun

素菜

1. vegetable dish; vegetarian dish
2. (dialectal Northern Wu) Alternative form of 蔬菜 (⁵su tshe, “vegetables”)

Synonyms

(vegetarian dish):

• 齋菜／斋菜 (zhāicài)
• (Wu) 素小菜

(vegetable):

Dialectal synonyms of 蔬菜 (“vegetables”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		菜, 蔬, 蔬菜, 菜蔬
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蔬菜, 青菜, 菜蔬
Mandarin	Beijing	青菜
	Jinan	青菜
	Xi'an	青菜, 菜
	Wuhan	小菜, 青菜
	Chengdu	小菜
	Yangzhou	蔬菜
	Hefei	青菜, 蔬菜
	Singapore	青菜, 菜, 蔬菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	菜
	Hong Kong	菜
	Yangjiang	菜
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	菜
	Singapore (Guangfu)	菜
Gan	Nanchang	青菜
Hakka	Meixian	青菜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	青菜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	青菜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	青菜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	青菜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	青菜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	青菜
Jin	Taiyuan	菜蔬, 菜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	青菜
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	菜, 青菜
Southern Min	Xiamen	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Quanzhou	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Jinjiang	菜蔬
	Zhangzhou	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Singapore (Hokkien)	菜
	Chaozhou	青菜, 菜
	Shantou	青菜
	Jieyang	青菜
	Singapore (Teochew)	菜
	Pontianak (Teochew)	青菜
	Singapore (Hainanese)	菜
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	瓜菜, 蔬菜
Wu	Suzhou	蔬菜
	Wenzhou	菜, 水菜
Xiang	Changsha	小菜
	Shuangfeng	蔬菜, 小菜

Derived terms

• 素菜館／素菜馆 (sùcàiguǎn)