菜 cài▶ plato

Stroke order

菜 is written in 11 strokes.

• 菜

Senses

1. (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
2. (coll.) (one's) type

Example sentences

• 这个菜很好吃。Zhège cài hěn hǎo chī.This dish is delicious.
• 妈妈会做中国菜。Māma huì zuò Zhōngguó cài.Mother can cook Chinese food.

Related words

• 菜单menú
• 蔬菜Verduras

菜 is pronounced cài and means “plato”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 菜 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.