菜

See also: 莱

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Han character

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

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

菜 (Jyutping coi3, Yale choi3)

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Japanese

Kanji

菜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: な (na)

Compounds

• 菜箸 (saibashi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 白菜 (báicài)
• 冬寒菜 (dōngháncài) - Chinese Mallow, Cluster Mallow, bot. Malva verticillata L.
• 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"
• A菜 Taiwanese word for 山莴苣 (shān wōjù) - Indian Lettuce (bot. Lactuca indica L.)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菜 (thái)