蔬菜
shū cài
Pinyin

Definition

蔬菜
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shū cài
  1. vegetables
  2. CL:種|种[zhǒng]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 CL:盤|盘[pán],道[dào]
  5. 5 (coll.) (one's) type
  6. 6 (of one's skills etc) weak
  7. 7 poor
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 CL:把[bǎ]
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 CL:種|种[zhǒng]
青菜
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
上菜
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food
做菜
zuò cài
  1. 1 to cook
  2. 2 cooking
卷心菜
juǎn xīn cài
  1. 1 cabbage
  2. 2 CL:棵[kē]
大白菜
dà bái cài
  1. 1 bok choy
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
  3. 3 Brassica pekinensis
  4. 4 CL:棵[kē]
家常菜
jiā cháng cài
  1. 1 home cooking
小菜
xiǎo cài
  1. 1 appetizer
  2. 2 small side dish
  3. 3 easy job
  4. 4 piece of cake
  5. 5 see also 小菜一碟[xiǎo cài yī dié]
小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
川菜
Chuān cài
  1. 1 Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
果蔬
guǒ shū
  1. 1 fruit and vegetables
榨菜
zhà cài
  1. 1 hot pickled mustard tuber
油菜
yóu cài
  1. 1 oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
  2. 2 flowering edible rape (Brassica chinensis var. oleifera)
泡菜
pào cài
  1. 1 pickled cabbage
炒菜
chǎo cài
  1. 1 to stir-fry
  2. 2 to do the cooking
  3. 3 stir-fried dish
生菜
shēng cài
  1. 1 lettuce
  2. 2 raw fresh vegetables
  3. 3 greens
白菜
bái cài
  1. 1 Chinese cabbage
  2. 2 pak choi
  3. 3 CL:棵[kē], 個|个[gè]
素菜
sù cài
  1. 1 vegetable dish

Idioms (7)

小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
  1. 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r5
  1. 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
  2. 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably
看菜吃饭
kān cài chī fàn
  1. 1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
  2. 2 to live within one's means
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure
  2. 2 to act according to actual circumstances
  3. 3 to live within one's means
萝卜白菜，各有所爱
luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
  2. 2 to each his own
黄花菜都凉了
huáng huā cài dōu liáng le
  1. 1 lit. the dishes are cold (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to arrive late
  3. 3 to take one's sweet time

Sample Sentences

你是身体的免疫力低了吧！我记得多吃些菇类和深绿色的蔬菜都能提升免疫力。你也可以用燕麦取代白米饭对降血压也有帮助。
nǐ shì shēntǐ de miǎnyìlì dī le ba ！wǒ jìde duō chī xiē gū lèi hé shēnlǜsè de shūcài dōu néng tíshēng miǎnyìlì 。nǐ yě kěyǐ yòng yànmài qǔdài báimǐfàn duì jiàng xuèyā yě yǒu bāngzhù 。
Your body’s immunity is probably low! I recall that eating mushrooms and dark green vegetables can raise your immunity. You can also replace white rice with oats, and it’s also helpful for lowering your blood pressure.
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你是不是忘记上星期有暴雨，产地受创，菜都泡烂了，前几天蔬菜又丑又贵，今天好不容易质量恢复正常。
nǐ shì bùshì wàngjì shàng xīngqī yǒu bàoyǔ ，chǎndì shòuchuàng ，cài dōu pàolàn le ，qiánjǐtiān shūcài yòu chǒu yòu guì ，jīntiān hǎobùróngyì zhìliàng huīfù zhèngcháng 。
Aren't you forgetting that last week there was a rainstorm which damaged fields, so the crops were all destroyed. For the last few days vegetables have been both scrawny-looking and expensive. Today at last the quality has been brought back to normal.
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这也太扯了。那我买根茎类蔬菜总行了吧。白萝卜怎么卖？
zhè yě tài chě le 。nà wǒ mǎi gēnjīnglèi shūcài zǒng xíng le ba 。báiluóbo zěnmemài ？
That's ridiculous. Buying a root vegetable would be OK, no? In what quantity do you sell the white radishes?
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这家购物中心应有尽有。想要买什么，就有什么。有蔬菜、水果、名牌，还有各种不同的商品。
zhè jiā gòuwùzhōngxīn yīngyǒujìnyǒu 。xiǎngyào mǎi shénme ，jiù yǒu shénme 。yǒu shūcài 、shuǐguǒ 、míngpái ，háiyǒu gèzhǒng bùtóng de shāngpǐn 。
This shopping mall has everything that one expects to find. You name it, you have it. They have vegetables, fruits, branded goods and lots of other things.
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如果我想煮饭，超市就会把新鲜的食材送到我家，他们送的东西包括蔬菜、肉类、海鲜，只要你能想到的应有尽有。
rúguǒ wǒ xiǎng zhǔfàn ，chāoshì jiù huì bǎ xīnxiān de shícái sòng dào wǒ jiā ，tāmen sòng de dōngxi bāokuò shūcài 、ròulèi 、hǎixiān ，zhǐyào nǐ néng xiǎngdào de yīngyǒujìnyǒu 。
If I want to cook, the delivery people will deliver fresh groceries to my house. What they deliver includes vegetables, meat, seafood and anything you can think of.
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知道了，以后我会注意营养要均衡，多吃蔬菜水果。
zhīdao le ，yǐhòu wǒ huì zhùyì yíngyǎng yào jūnhéng ，duō chī shūcài shuǐguǒ 。
I know, I'll pay attention to nutritional balance in future and eat more fruit and vegetables.
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好啊，不过我不想吃蔬菜和水果味的。
hǎo a ，bùguò wǒ bùxiǎng chī shūcài hé shuǐguǒ wèi de 。
Good, but I don't want to eat a vegetable or fruit salad.
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我不知道，我没吃过这种蔬菜。
wǒ bù zhīdào ，wǒ méi chī guo zhè zhǒng shūcài 。
I don't know, I've never eaten this kind of vegetable.
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这是一种蔬菜。
zhè shì yī zhǒng shūcài 。
This is a kind of vegetable.
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我们倒是见怪不怪，百毒不侵了。可我女儿怎么办？为了孩子，只能尽量选择安全的。奶粉都买进口的，蔬菜都买绿色的，能自己做就不在外面吃。一点儿也不敢马虎。
wǒmen dàoshì jiànguàibùguài ，bǎidúbùqīn le 。kě wǒ nǚér zěnme bàn ？wèile háizi ，zhǐnéng jǐnliàng xuǎnzé ānquán de 。nǎifěn dōu mǎi jìnkǒu de ，shūcài dōu mǎi lǜsè de ，néng zìjǐ zuò jiù bù zài wàimian chī 。yīdiǎnr5 yě bù gǎn mǎhu 。
We just have to deal with it and be immune to it. But what's my daughter supposed to do? For my child, I have to choose safe things as much as possible. I buy only imported milk powder. I buy only organic vegetables. I cook for myself when I can and avoid eating out. I don't dare to be careless in the least.
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