烧菜
shāo cài
Pinyin

Definition

烧菜
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shāo cài
  1. to cook

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
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
紫菜
zǐ cài
  1. 1 flavored roasted seaweed
  2. 2 generic term for edible seaweed
  3. 3 Japanese: nori

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

这是铝做的，用铝锅烧菜容易中毒。
zhè shì lǚ zuò de ，yòng lǚ guō shāocài róngyì zhòngdú 。
This one is made out of aluminum. Using an aluminum wok to cook food can easily poison you.
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我要买这个无油烟锅，烧菜就没有油烟了。
wǒ yào mǎi zhè gè wúyóuyān guō ，shāocài jiù méiyǒu yóuyān le 。
I want to buy this anti-oil-fume wok. When you cook with it, it doesn't have any oil fumes.
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教别人烧菜的时候
jiāo biérén shāocài de shíhou
when teaching others how to cook
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烧菜还是放黄酒好。放白酒小心喝醉了。对了，你喝黄酒的时候喜欢吃什么？
shāocài háishì fàng huángjiǔ hǎo 。fàng báijiǔ xiǎoxīn hē zuì le 。duìle ，nǐ hē huángjiǔ de shíhou xǐhuan chī shénme ？
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哎，我闻那个味儿就够了。喝一小口就觉得整个嗓子都在烧。不过烧菜的时候放些白酒，味道还是很不错的。
āi ，wǒ wén nàge wèir5 jiù gòu le 。hē yī xiǎokǒu jiù juéde zhěnggè sǎngzi dōu zài shāo 。bùguò shāocài de shíhou fàng xiē báijiǔ ，wèidao háishì hěn bùcuò de 。
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