蕹菜
 wèng cài
 Pinyin
Definition
蕹菜
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              - water spinach
 - ong choy
 - swamp cabbage
 - water convolvulus
 - water morning-glory
 - Ipomoea aquatica (botany)
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 green vegetables
 - 2 Chinese cabbage
 
- 1 to serve food
 
Idioms (7)
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)
 
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
 
看菜吃饭,量体裁衣
  - 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 to act according to actual circumstances
 - 3 to live within one's means