冷菜
lěng cài
Pinyin

Definition

冷菜
 - 
lěng cài
  1. cold dish
  2. cold food

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

冷
Lěng
  1. 1 surname Leng
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
上菜
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food
做菜
zuò cài
  1. 1 to cook
  2. 2 cooking
冰冷
bīng lěng
  1. 1 ice-cold
冷冷
lěng lěng
  1. 1 coldly
冷冷清清
lěng lěng qīng qīng
  1. 1 deserted
  2. 2 desolate
  3. 3 unfrequented
  4. 4 cold and cheerless
  5. 5 lonely
  6. 6 in quiet isolation
冷冻
lěng dòng
  1. 1 to freeze
  2. 2 to deep-freeze
冷却
lěng què
  1. 1 to cool off
  2. 2 cooling
冷天
lěng tiān
  1. 1 cold weather
  2. 2 cold season
冷战
Lěng zhàn
  1. 1 (US-Soviet) Cold War
冷暖
lěng nuǎn
  1. 1 lit. daily changes of temperature
  2. 2 fig. well-being
  3. 3 sb's comfort, health, prosperity etc
冷暖自知
lěng nuǎn zì zhī
  1. 1 see 如人飲水，冷暖自知|如人饮水，冷暖自知[rú rén yǐn shuǐ , lěng nuǎn zì zhī]
冷水
lěng shuǐ
  1. 1 cold water
  2. 2 unboiled water
  3. 3 fig. not yet ready (of plans)
冷汗
lěng hàn
  1. 1 cold sweat
冷淡
lěng dàn
  1. 1 cold
  2. 2 indifferent
冷清
lěng qīng
  1. 1 cold and cheerless
  2. 2 fig. lonely
  3. 3 unfrequented
冷漠
lěng mò
  1. 1 cold and detached towards sb
  2. 2 lack of regard
  3. 3 indifference
  4. 4 neglect
冷眼
lěng yǎn
  1. 1 cool eye
  2. 2 fig. detached
  3. 3 (treating) with indifference
冷笑
lěng xiào
  1. 1 to sneer
  2. 2 to laugh grimly
  3. 3 grin of dissatisfaction (bitterness, helplessness, indignation etc)
  4. 4 bitter, grim, sarcastic or angry smile

Idioms (17)

冰炭不言，冷热自明
bīng tàn bù yán , lěng rè zì míng
  1. 1 ice or coals, whether hot or cold goes without saying (idiom); fig. sincerity is not expressed in words
冷嘲热讽
lěng cháo rè fěng
  1. 1 frigid irony and scorching satire (idiom); to mock and ridicule
冷若冰霜
lěng ruò bīng shuāng
  1. 1 as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner
  2. 2 frigid
冷言冷语
lěng yán lěng yǔ
  1. 1 sarcastic comments (idiom)
  2. 2 to make sarcastic comments
冷语冰人
lěng yǔ bīng rén
  1. 1 to offend people with unkind remarks (idiom)
小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捏一把冷汗
niē yī bǎ lěng hàn
  1. 1 to break out into a cold sweat (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)
枕冷衾寒
zhěn lěng qīn hán
  1. 1 cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
热脸贴冷屁股
rè liǎn tiē lěng pì gu
  1. 1 to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom)
  2. 2 to be snubbed despite showing good intentions
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
知冷知热
zhī lěng zhī rè
  1. 1 to know whether others are cold or hot (idiom)
  2. 2 to be very considerate
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
门庭冷落，门堪罗雀
mén tíng lěng luò , mén kān luó què
  1. 1 The courtyard is deserted, you can net sparrows at the door (idiom); completely deserted
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

哦，是不是就相当于我们中国人吃的冷菜？
ò ，shì bushì jiù xiāngdāng yú wǒmen Zhōngguórén chī de lěngcài ？
Oh, isn't that equivalent to the cold dishes that we Chinese eat?
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先生，你们点了两个冷菜，六个热菜，一个汤。还需要吗？
xiānsheng ，nǐmen diǎn le liǎng ge lěngcài ，liù ge rècài ，yī ge tāng 。hái xūyào ma ？
Sir, you ordered two cold dishes, six hot dishes, and one soup. Do you need anything else?
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