菜
cài HSK1

vegetables

菜 cài
dish noun
a specific dish of food or a course in a meal; non-staple food that accompanies rice or bread

这道菜叫什么名字？

zhè dào cài jiào shén​me míng​zi?

What is the name of this dish?

vegetable noun
vegetables or greens in general; edible plants
weak
(slang) poor in quality or skill; inexperienced or disappointing; often used in the compound 菜鸟 cài​niǎo
type
(slang) one's preferred type of person, especially in a romantic context
rapeseed
(bound form) specifically referring to rapeseed or oilseed rape
Cai
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,266th most common 100.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,086th most common 86.9 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
58.5 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
89.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+83DC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)