菜式
cài shì
Pinyin

Definition

菜式
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cài shì
  1. dish (food prepared according to a specific recipe)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

fāng shì
  1. 1 way
  2. 2 manner
  3. 3 style
  4. 4 mode
  5. 5 pattern
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
mó shì
  1. 1 mode
  2. 2 method
  3. 3 pattern
zhèng shì
  1. 1 formal
  2. 2 official
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
shàng cài
  1. 1 to serve food

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 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
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