"garlic" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 大蒜 | garlic / CL:瓣[ban4],頭|头[tou2] | syn | |
| 蒜 | garlic / CL:頭|头[tou2],瓣[ban4] | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 荤 葷 | strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc) / non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc) / vulgar / obscene | syn | |
| 韭菜 | garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives / (fig.) retail investors who lose their money to more experienced operators (i.e. they are "harvested" like garlic chives) | syn | |
| 鸡毛蒜皮 雞毛蒜皮 | lit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom) / fig. trivial (matter) | syn | |
| 蒜头 蒜頭 | garlic bulb | syn | |
| 蒜苗 | garlic shoot / garlic sprouts | syn | |
| 荤菜 葷菜 | non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc) | syn | |
| 青蒜 | garlic shoots and leaves | syn | |
| 蒜薹 | garlic shoots (cookery) | syn | |
| 瓣 | petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc | syn | |
| 蒜蓉 | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic / garlic paste | ||
| 蒜泥 | thoroughly mashed or minced garlic / garlic paste | ||
| 蒜米 | minced garlic / peeled garlic clove | ||
| 压蒜器 壓蒜器 | garlic press | ||
| 多瓣蒜 | Chinese elephant garlic | ||
| 大蒜炒肉片 | stir-fried pork with garlic | ||
| 大蒜碾碎器 | garlic press | ||
| 蒜味 | garlic odor | ||
| 蒜苗炒肉片 | stir-fried pork with garlic | ||
| 蒜茸钳 蒜茸鉗 | garlic press | ||
| 蒜蓉油菜 | Chinese vegetable in garlic sauce | ||
| 蒜蓉豆角 蒜蓉荳角 | green beans in garlic sauce | ||
| 香蒜酱 香蒜醬 | garlic sauce / pesto | ||
| 鱼香茄子 魚香茄子 | "fish-flavored" eggplant in garlic sauce | ||
| 鱼香 魚香 | yuxiang, a seasoning of Chinese cuisine that typically contains garlic, scallions, ginger, sugar, salt, chili peppers etc (Although "yuxiang" literally means "fish fragrance", it contains no seafood.) | ||
| 五荤 五葷 | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander | syn | |
| 磕头如捣蒜 磕頭如搗蒜 | lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom) / fig. to pound the ground with one's head | ||
| 五辛素 | (adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and onions) | ||
| 蒜瓣 | garlic clove | ||
| 蒜糜 | (dialect) garlic paste |