菜飯

See also: 菜饭

Chinese

		dish (type of food); vegetables	food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal
trad. (菜飯)		菜	飯
simp. (菜饭)		菜	饭
anagram		飯菜／饭菜

Shanghainese Caifan with Bok Choy.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): càifàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˋ ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coi³ faan⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhài-pn̄g
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁵tshe-ve; ¹tshe-ve / ¹tshe₅-ve₆

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càifàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˋ ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càifàn
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻai⁴-fan⁴
    • Yale: tsài-fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsayfann
    • Palladius: цайфань (cajfanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: coi³ faan⁶
    • Yale: choi faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi³ faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: coi³ fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ faːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhài-pn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: tshài-pn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhae'png
    • Sinological IPA (Singapore): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁴² pŋ̍²²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tshe-ve; ¹tshe-ve
    • MiniDict: tshe^去 ve; tshe^平 ve
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tshe-ve; ¹tshe-ve
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰe³³ ve⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰe⁵⁵ ve²¹/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹tshe₅-ve₆
    • MiniDict: tshe^去 ve^去
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡sʰe⁴⁴ ve/

Noun

菜飯

1. rice or millet with vegetables
2. (Singapore) economy rice
   • 2021, “这个那个 [The Caifan Song]”‎^[1]performed by Annette Lee and Benjamin Kheng:

     uncle我真的很愛你　因為你煮的菜飯又好吃又那麼便宜 [Singaporean Mandarin, trad.]
     uncle我真的很爱你　因为你煮的菜饭又好吃又那么便宜 [Singaporean Mandarin, simp.]

     uncle wǒ zhēnde hěn ài nǐ, yīnwèi nǐ zhǔ de càifàn yòu hǎochī yòu nàme biànyí [Pinyin]

     uncle, I really love you, because your cai fan is both delicious and cheap

3. (originally Northern Wu) Caifan (a Jiangnan rice dish cooked with leafy greens, sometimes soybeans, other root vegetables, cured or fresh meat)

Synonyms

• (Caifan): (Northern Wu) 鹹酸飯／咸酸饭

Dialectal synonyms of 雜菜飯 (“economy rice”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		雜菜飯, 經濟飯
Northeastern Mandarin	Malaysia	雜飯
	Singapore	菜飯
Cantonese	Hong Kong	兩餸飯
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	雜飯
Southern Min	Penang (Hokkien)	經濟飯
	Singapore (Hokkien)	菜飯

Descendants

• → English: cai png, cai fan