端菜
duān cài
Pinyin

Definition

端菜
 - 
duān cài
  1. to serve food

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

客户端
kè hù duān
  1. 1 client (computing)
端
duān
  1. 1 end
  2. 2 extremity
  3. 3 item
  4. 4 port
  5. 5 to hold sth level with both hands
  6. 6 to carry
  7. 7 regular
菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 CL:盤|盘[pán],道[dào]
  5. 5 (coll.) (one's) type
  6. 6 (of one's skills etc) weak
  7. 7 poor
上菜
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food
做菜
zuò cài
  1. 1 to cook
  2. 2 cooking
卷心菜
juǎn xīn cài
  1. 1 cabbage
  2. 2 CL:棵[kē]
大白菜
dà bái cài
  1. 1 bok choy
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
  3. 3 Brassica pekinensis
  4. 4 CL:棵[kē]
家常菜
jiā cháng cài
  1. 1 home cooking
小菜
xiǎo cài
  1. 1 appetizer
  2. 2 small side dish
  3. 3 easy job
  4. 4 piece of cake
  5. 5 see also 小菜一碟[xiǎo cài yī dié]
小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
川菜
Chuān cài
  1. 1 Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
极端
jí duān
  1. 1 extreme
榨菜
zhà cài
  1. 1 hot pickled mustard tuber
油菜
yóu cài
  1. 1 oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
  2. 2 flowering edible rape (Brassica chinensis var. oleifera)
泡菜
pào cài
  1. 1 pickled cabbage
炒菜
chǎo cài
  1. 1 to stir-fry
  2. 2 to do the cooking
  3. 3 stir-fried dish
无端
wú duān
  1. 1 for no reason at all
无端端
wú duān duān
  1. 1 for no reason
生菜
shēng cài
  1. 1 lettuce
  2. 2 raw fresh vegetables
  3. 3 greens
白菜
bái cài
  1. 1 Chinese cabbage
  2. 2 pak choi
  3. 3 CL:棵[kē], 個|个[gè]

Idioms (13)

一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
不可端倪
bù kě duān ní
  1. 1 impossible to get even an outline (idiom)
  2. 2 unfathomable
  3. 3 not a clue
小菜一碟
xiǎo cài yī dié
  1. 1 a small appetizer
  2. 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì cài
  1. 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
百端待举
bǎi duān dài jǔ
  1. 1 a thousand things remain to be done (idiom)
  2. 2 numerous tasks remain to be undertaken
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r5
  1. 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
  2. 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably
看菜吃饭
kān cài chī fàn
  1. 1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
  2. 2 to live within one's means
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure
  2. 2 to act according to actual circumstances
  3. 3 to live within one's means
萝卜白菜，各有所爱
luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
  2. 2 to each his own
诡计多端
guǐ jì duō duān
  1. 1 deceitful in many ways (idiom); wily and mischievous
  2. 2 full of craft and cunning
连锅端
lián guō duān
  1. 1 to take even the cooking pots (idiom)
  2. 2 to clean out
  3. 3 to wipe out
鬼计多端
guǐ jì duō duān
  1. 1 full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom)
  2. 2 sly
  3. 3 crafty
  4. 4 malicious
黄花菜都凉了
huáng huā cài dōu liáng le
  1. 1 lit. the dishes are cold (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to arrive late
  3. 3 to take one's sweet time

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