菜单
cài dān
Pinyin

Definition

菜单
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cài dān
  1. menu
  2. CL:份[fèn],張|张[zhāng]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 CL:把[bǎ]
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 CL:種|种[zhǒng]
青菜
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage
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
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
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]
素菜
sù cài
  1. 1 vegetable dish
紫菜
zǐ cài
  1. 1 flavored roasted seaweed
  2. 2 generic term for edible seaweed
  3. 3 Japanese: nori

Idioms (7)

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)
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
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

Sample Sentences

来一杯，有菜单吗？
lái yī bēi ，yǒu càidān ma ？
I'll get one, do you have a menu?
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你已经看菜单看了十多分钟了，还是不知道要吃什么吗？
nǐ yǐjīng kàn càidān kàn le shí duō fēnzhōng le ，háishi bù zhīdào yào chī shénme ma ？
A: You’ve already been staring at the menu for over 10 minutes now. You still don’t know what you want to eat?
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不要了吗？那我请柜台那边帮你对一下菜单，看上了哪些菜，帮你结账。
búyào le ma ？nà wǒ qǐng guìtái nàbiān bāng nǐ duì yíxià càidān ，kàn shàng le nǎxiē cài ，bāng nǐ jiézhàng 。
You don't want them? I'll have my colleague at the counter go through your bill. You can just pay for the dishes that came.
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别客气，应该的。你看一下菜单，想吃什么？
bié kèqi ，yīnggāi de 。nǐ kàn yīxià càidān ，xiǎng chī shénme ？
Don't be polite. It's something I should do. Have a look at the menu. What would you like to eat?
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妈，你来帮我看看这个年夜饭的菜单有问题吗？
mā ，nǐ lái bāng wǒ kàn kan zhè ge niányèfàn de càidān yǒu wèntí ma ？
Mom, can you come help me see if there are any problems with the menu for New Year's dinner?
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你先看看菜单吧。
nǐ xiān kàn kan càidān ba 。
You look at the menu first.
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行，有菜单吗？我看一下菜单。
xíng ，yǒu càidān ma ？wǒ kàn yīxià càidān 。
Okay. Do you have a menu? I'll take a look at the menu.
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哎，老板，我的菜单怎么跟他们的不一样？
āi ，lǎobǎn ，wǒ de càidān zěnme gēn tāmen de bù yīyàng ？
Hey, boss. Why is my menu different from theirs?
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那个菜单没有了，你就看这个吧。
nà gè càidān méiyǒu le ，nǐ jiù kàn zhè gè ba 。
There aren't any menus left. Just look at this one.
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那怎么他们的菜单上写的是十块？你专门宰外国人啊！
nà zěnme tāmen de càidān shàng xiě de shì shí kuài ？nǐ zhuānmén zǎi wàiguórén a ！
Then why is it written as 10 kuai on their menu? You're just looking to rip off foreigners!
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