饭菜 (飯菜)
fàn cài
Pinyin
Definition
饭菜 (飯菜)
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- food
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
Sample Sentences
今天饭菜这么丰盛啊,能赶上过年了。
Today's dishes are so sumptuous! It's surpassed Chinese New Year's (meal)!
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。
Very soon, three years went by. One day when he returned home from work, the bachelor discovered his table full of prepared food.