菜
菜 in English
- vegetable / greens (CL:棵[ke1]) / dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2]) / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor / (coll.) (one's) type
Measure word
- 样 yàng manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape; classifier: kind, type attested
- 棵 kē classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc attested
- 盘 pán tray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing) (bound form) disk; to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)... attested
- 道 dào road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization... attested
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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不，我还是喜欢吃蔬菜。
No, I still prefer eating vegetables.
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为什么你不吃蔬菜？
Why don't you eat vegetables?
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他是我的菜!
He is my type!
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但我有能力烧得好菜。
But I am able to cook well.
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你喜不喜欢日本菜？
Do you like Japanese food?
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你喜欢中国菜吗？
Do you like Chinese food?
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你喜欢做菜吗？
Do you like cooking?
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你应该吃更多蔬菜。
You should eat more vegetables.