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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
cài - 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

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 1,421 1,478 725

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Plant

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 1,421 1,478 725
蔬菜 5 5 5,170 3,033 2,639
菜单 3 2 5,451 9,571 11,599
泡菜 - - 8,104 17,097 7,757
小菜 - - 9,872 20,353 10,879
饭菜 - - 10,903 11,150 8,300
点菜 - - 11,167 26,154 15,353
卷心菜 - - 13,410 35,205 15,207
菠菜 - - 15,049 12,608 5,160
菜谱 - - 15,700 25,436 14,286
生菜 - - 16,878 24,106 10,609
主菜 - - 17,429 46,727 29,578
做菜 - - 17,576 22,754 11,884
剩菜 - - 17,621 42,358 25,827
甜菜 - - 18,501 33,118 38,409
花椰菜 - - 19,692 48,837 22,512
芹菜 - - 19,989 14,319 6,006
白菜 - 3 23,622 10,048 4,447
家常菜 - - 26,473 37,056 18,731
青菜 - - 26,813 13,849 6,596
菜刀 - - 27,585 13,051 7,456
菜肴 - - 28,826 15,479 14,740
菜园 - - 33,545 - -
咸菜 - - 33,555 28,285 16,338
菜市场 - 9 34,365 20,072 13,898
香菜 - - 34,582 20,697 8,198
酒菜 - - 35,502 31,480 36,730
菜豆 - - 35,804 69,360 55,480
菜花 - - 37,296 28,144 12,600
菜色 - - 37,298 49,878 27,628
菜馆 - - 37,307 35,716 24,804
素菜 - - 37,504 34,956 18,057
芥菜 - - 37,657 45,082 23,406
酸菜 - - 37,980 18,950 8,012
炒菜 - - 38,171 22,444 12,533
名菜 - - 40,629 36,786 28,516
花菜 - - 41,752 - -
紫菜 - - 44,028 21,761 9,920
菜地 - - 47,560 26,505 32,176
野菜 - - 48,462 26,469 29,945
川菜 - - 50,225 21,888 12,732
冷菜 - - 51,059 59,783 32,805
荠菜 - - 53,367 43,791 20,480
韭菜 - - 54,673 18,533 8,510
菜市 - - 56,435 36,403 30,054
菜板 - - 56,572 63,516 31,853
圆白菜 - - 57,927 52,131 22,057
油菜 - - 59,642 9,363 7,576
荤菜 - - 60,569 53,162 29,503
菜场 - - 65,863 23,216 18,124
黄花菜 - - 65,878 45,649 26,220
菜油 - - 65,915 39,627 28,699
包心菜 - - 66,593 64,761 31,188
牛皮菜 - - 83,167 - -
大白菜 - - 83,200 20,374 10,326
小白菜 - - 86,242 38,080 21,990
粤菜 - - 88,269 40,198 25,535
豆芽菜 - - 95,464 60,004 37,787
洋白菜 - - 96,888 - 62,694
龙须菜 - - 97,000 - -