剩菜
shèng cài
Pinyin

Definition

剩菜
 - 
shèng cài
  1. leftovers (food)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

剩
shèng
  1. 1 to remain
  2. 2 to be left
  3. 3 to have as remainder
剩下
shèng xià
  1. 1 to remain
  2. 2 left over
菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 classifier: 盘 pán
  5. 5 classifier: 道 dào
  6. 6 (coll.) (one's) type
  7. 7 (of one's skills etc) weak
  8. 8 poor
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (8)

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)
残茶剩饭
cán chá shèng fàn
  1. 1 spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal
  2. 2 crumbs from the feast
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r
  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

Sample Sentences

你还不知道吧？现在自助餐厅都规定，剩菜太多要罚款呢，看谁还敢多取。
nǐ hái bù zhīdào ba ？xiànzài zìzhùcān tīng dōu guīdìng ，shèngcài tài duō yào fákuǎn ne ，kàn shéi hái gǎn duō qǔ 。
Don’t you know? Restaurants serving buffet have a rule that penalise customers who have too much leftovers.
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呃！我想想，方便面、面包、即食麦片、水，啊啊！除了昨天的剩菜以外，都没有肉了，不过只要不停水，我们就还活得下去。
è ！wǒ xiǎngxiang ，fāngbiànmiàn 、miànbāo 、jíshímàipiàn 、shuǐ ，ā ā ！chúle zuótiān de shèngcài yǐwài ，dōu méiyǒu ròu le ，bùguò zhǐyào bù tíngshuǐ ，wǒmen jiù hái huó de xiàqu 。
Hum, let me think, instant noodles, bread, instant oatmeal, water...Ah! Apart from leftover's from yesterday, there's no more meat. As long as the water supply isn't cut off, we'll be able to survive.
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