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Kanji Detail for 菜 - "vegetable, greens, dish"

菜

  • Meaning

    菜 means "vegetable, greens, dish."

    1. Vegetable - An edible plant.

    2. Greens - Leafy vegetables.

    3. Dish - A food preparation.

  • Words using 菜

    • 野菜 やさい Listen vegetable
    • 山菜 さんさい Listen edible wild plants
    • 菜園 さいえん Listen vegetable garden
    • 惣菜 そうざい Listen small dish (served as a part of an ordinary household meal); side dish
    • 白菜 はくさい Listen napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage
    • 菜食 さいしょく Listen vegetable diet

  • Four-character idioms with 菜

    • 一汁一菜 いちじゅういっさい Listen one-plate meal; simple meal; austerity diet

  • Tattoo check: 菜

    • Verified meaning: vegetable, greens, dish
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さい, なずな, なの)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 菜

    Given names 菜(さい)Listen 菜(なずな)Listen 菜(なの)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    vegetable; side dish; greens

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    vegetables; dish, order; food

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    vegetable; greens (CL:棵[ke1]); dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2]); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor; (coll.) (one's) type

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    vegetables; order, dish; food

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Grass that is edible. All vegetables are included. Also 菜色 (vegetable complexion) means a hungry appearance. | Commonly all dishes are collectively called 菜.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sai(サイ) サイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    na(な) な

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    vegetable greens dish cuisine cooking food garden harvest ingredient plant produce leafy farm nutrition

Sentences including 菜

  • You should eat more vegetables.

  • Eat a lot of vegetables.

  • She bought some vegetables yesterday.

  • Some children do not like vegetables.

  • What do you call this vegetable in english?

  • You should eat more vegetables.

  • He got me some vegetables.

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