饭菜 (飯菜)
fàn cài
Pinyin

Definition

饭菜 (飯菜)
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fàn cài
  1. food

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
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

Sample Sentences

今天饭菜这么丰盛啊,能赶上过年了。
jīntiān fàncài zhème fēngshèng ā ,néng gǎnshàng guònián le 。
Today's dishes are so sumptuous! It's surpassed Chinese New Year's (meal)!
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很快,三年过去了。有一天,他干完活回家,发现桌子上摆满了饭菜。
hěnkuài ,sān nián guòqù le 。yǒu yī tiān ,tā gàn wán huó huíjiā ,fāxiàn zhuōzi shàng bǎi mǎn le fàncài 。
Very soon, three years went by. One day when he returned home from work, the bachelor discovered his table full of prepared food.
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