炒菜
chǎo cài
Pinyin

Definition

炒菜
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chǎo cài
  1. to stir-fry
  2. to do the cooking
  3. stir-fried dish

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

chǎo
  1. 1 to sauté
  2. 2 to stir-fry
  3. 3 to speculate
  4. 4 to hype
  5. 5 to fire (sb)
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
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 classifier: 种 zhǒng
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage

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)
生炒热卖
shēng chǎo rè mài
  1. 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
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

哎,这儿有一个锅,可以炒菜。
āi ,zhèr yǒu yī ge guō ,kěyǐ chǎo cài 。
Hey, there's a wok over here. We could fry some stuff up.
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那炒菜时的油烟不就跑到客厅里了嘛。
nà chǎocài shí de yóuyān bù jiù pǎodào kètīng lǐ le ma 。
Then when we cook food, won't the oily smoke float into the living room?
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