菜花

Chinese

		dish (type of food); vegetables	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (菜花)		菜	花
simp. #(菜花)		菜	花
anagram		花菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): càihuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coi³ faa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhài-hoe / chhài-hoa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càihuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càihua
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻai⁴-hua¹
    • Yale: tsài-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsayhua
    • Palladius: цайхуа (cajxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: coi³ faa¹
    • Yale: choi fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi³ faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: coi³ fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ faː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen, Kinmen, Magong, Sanxia, Taichung, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhài-hoe
    • Tâi-lô: tshài-hue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhae'hoef
    • IPA (Xiamen, Yilan): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hue³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kinmen): /t͡sʰai¹²⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhài-hoa
    • Tâi-lô: tshài-hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhae'hoaf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ hua⁴⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 菜花

1. rape flower
2. (by extension) flower found on leafy vegetables in general
3. cauliflower
4. gonorrhea
5. genital warts
6. (Kaohsiung Hokkien and Tainan Hokkien) garlic chives

Synonyms

• (cauliflower): 花菜 (huācài), 花椰菜 (huāyēcài); (Min Nan) 花仔菜, 高麗菜花／高丽菜花

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
菜	花
Grade: 4	Grade: 1

Noun

菜花(なばな) or 菜花(なのはな) • (nabana or nanohana) 

1. rape blossom, the flowers or other edible parts of Brassica rapa and related species
2. Alternative spelling of 菜の花