菜 cài dish
dish; vegetable; cuisine
怎么记住“菜”: 艹 grass + 采 pick = dish. The chef crawls through the grass to pick wild herbs for tonight's special dish.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
菜 = 艹 grass + 采 pick
- 艹 grass meaning
- 采 pick sound
The chef crawls through the grass to pick wild herbs for tonight's special dish.
How it came to be
In the small seal form, the grass on top gives the meaning, plants, and the part below gives the sound.
用法
- Covers both 'vegetable' and 'a cooked dish': 买菜 (mǎi cài) buy groceries, 点菜 (diǎn cài) order dishes, 中国菜 (Zhōngguó cài) Chinese cuisine.
- 菜单 (càidān) menu. Slang: 我很菜 (wǒ hěn cài) = I'm useless at this.
含“菜”的词语
例句
- 这道菜很好吃。 Zhè dào cài hěn hǎochī.This dish is delicious.
- 这道菜的味道很一般。 Zhè dào cài de wèidao hěn yìbān.The taste of this dish is very ordinary.
- 一般来说，东北菜比较咸。 Yībānláishuō, Dōngběi cài bǐjiào xián.Generally speaking, Dongbei cuisine is rather salty.
- 桌上摆了很多菜。 Zhuō shàng bǎile hěn duō cài.There are a lot of dishes on the table.