菜
cài HSK1

vegetables

菜 cài
dish noun
a prepared dish of food or a course in a meal

这道菜的味道非常地道。

zhè dào cài de wèi​dao fēi​cháng dì​dao.

The taste of this dish is very authentic.

vegetable noun
vegetables or greens

他在花园里种了很多菜。

tā zài huā​yuán lǐ zhòng le hěn​duō cài.

He planted many vegetables in the garden.

type noun
one's preference in a romantic partner

那种斯文的男生不是我的菜。

nà zhǒng sī​wén de nán​shēng bù shì wǒ de cài.

That kind of refined guy is not my type.

weak adjective
poor or unskilled, especially in sports or games

他的技术太菜了，还没开始就输了。

tā de jì​shù tài cài le, hái méi kāi​shǐ jiù shū le.

His skills are so poor that he lost before he even started.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)