Chinese Character 菜 Meanings and components.

Form

菜

Meaning

菜 meaning[3] in English

Dish (Type Of Food).

Vegetable.

Cuisine.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 菜 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and to pick (采)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TBD

How to write 菜

To write菜cai4dish (type … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 采cai3to pick arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 采 = 菜

菜 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 菜 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 菜, looks as follow:

菜
Pinyin:cai4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Dish (Type Of Food) . Vegetable . Cuisine . Cl:盤|盘[Pan2],道[Dao4] . (Coll.) (One'S) Type . (Of One'S Skills Etc) Weak . Poor
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
采
Pinyin:cai3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Pick . To Pluck . To Collect . To Select . To Choose . To Gather
爫
Pinyin:zhao3
Meaning[3]: 'Claw' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 87)
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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