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菜 kanji
vegetable, side dish, greens
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
サイ
Kun readings
な
Words with 菜
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5野菜Popularvegetable; marijuana; cannabis
- —菜園Popularvegetable garden
- —菜食Popularvegetable diet
- —山菜Popularedible wild plants
- —惣菜Popularsmall dish (served as a part of an ordinary household meal); side dish
- —白菜Popularnapa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage
- —菜side dish
- —果菜fruits and vegetables
- —乾菜dried vegetables
- —前菜hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; appetiser; starter
- —蔬菜greens; vegetables
- —菜箸long chopsticks (for cooking, serving, etc.)
- —根菜root vegetable
- —甜菜sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)
- —甘菜sugar beet
- —香菜coriander (Coriandrum sativum); cilantro; dhania; Chinese parsley
- —残菜kitchen waste; vegetable scraps
- —雍菜swamp morning glory (Ipomoea aquatica); water spinach; river spinach; kangkong; Chinese spinach; Chinese Watercress; Chinese convolvulus; swamp cabbage
- —主菜main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish
- —副菜side dish (e.g. vegetables, beans, pickles)