炒菜
chǎo cài
Pinyin
Definition
炒菜
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- to stir-fry
- to do the cooking
- stir-fried dish
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to sauté
- 2 to stir-fry
- 3 to speculate
- 4 to hype
- 5 to fire (sb)
- 1 green vegetables
- 2 Chinese cabbage
Idioms (8)
小菜一碟
- 1 a small appetizer
- 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
- 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
生炒热卖
- 1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
看人下菜碟儿
- 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
- 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably
看菜吃饭
- 1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
- 2 to live within one's means
Sample Sentences
哎,这儿有一个锅,可以炒菜。
Hey, there's a wok over here. We could fry some stuff up.
那炒菜时的油烟不就跑到客厅里了嘛。
Then when we cook food, won't the oily smoke float into the living room?