菜

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See also: 莱
菜 U+83DC, 菜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83DC
← 菛
[U+83DB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 菝 →
[U+83DD]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 菜
simp. # 菜
variant forms 𦬁 second round simplified

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (采) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
采 *sʰɯːʔ
睬 *sʰɯːʔ
彩 *sʰɯːʔ
採 *sʰɯːʔ
綵 *sʰɯːʔ
寀 *sʰɯːʔ
菜 *sʰɯːs
埰 *sʰɯːs
棌 *sʰɯːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰɯːs): semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 菜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉代切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰəjH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cài
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 菜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshojH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.r̥ˁəʔ-s/
English vegetables

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 菜
Reading # 1/1
No. 1076
Phonetic
component 		采
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		菜
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰɯːs/

Definitions[edit]

菜

  1. vegetable; greens (Classifier: 條／条 c)
    蔬菜  ―  shūcài  ―  vegetables
    白菜  ―  báicài  ―  Chinese cabbage
    菠菜  ―  bōcài  ―  spinach
  2. cuisine; (type of) food
    日本菜  ―  rìběn cài  ―  Japanese food
  3. dish; course (Classifier: 盤／盘 m; 道 m)
    這道菜很對胃口。 / 这道菜很对胃口。  ―  Zhè dào cài hěn duìwèikǒu.  ―  This dish is tasty.
  4. (colloquial) (one's) type; cup of tea
    • 他是我的菜！  ―  Tā shì wǒ de cài!  ―  He is my type!
  5. (colloquial) bad; inferior; disappointing; below average
    菜鳥 / 菜鸟  ―  càiniǎo  ―  noob

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 菜 (“dish; vegetable or meat dish”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 菜
Mandarin Beijing 菜
Taiwan 菜
Tianjin 菜
Jinan 菜
Xi'an 菜
Wuhan 菜
Chengdu 菜
Yangzhou 菜
Hefei 菜
Cantonese Guangzhou 餸、餸菜
Hong Kong 餸、餸菜
Taishan 餸、餸菜
Yangjiang 餸
Gan Nanchang 菜
Hakka Meixian 菜
Jin Taiyuan 菜
Min Bei Jian'ou 菜
Min Dong Fuzhou 配
Min Nan Xiamen 物配
Quanzhou 物配
Zhangzhou 物配
Taipei 物配
Kaohsiung 物配
Chaozhou 物配
Wu Suzhou 小菜
Wenzhou 配、餚配
Xiang Changsha 菜
Shuangfeng 菜

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 菜

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

菜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. greens; vegetables
  2. rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
  3. side dish

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds


Kanji in this term
菜
な
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

菜 (hiragana な, rōmaji na)

  1. greens

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. An edible plant or leaf of plant. greens; vegetables

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

菜 (thái, thủy, linh, lê)

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