The Chinese word for lettuce is
生菜

shēng cài

Chinese Definition

lettuce
1. 名词. 生菜
Components
生
1. to live; to subsist; to exist
2. to grow; to develop; to bud
3. (causative) to bear; to give birth; to bring up; to rear
他妻子生了一對雙胞胎女孩。 (Tā qīzǐ shēng le yī duì shuāngbāotāi nǚhái.) - His wife gave birth to twin girls.
4. to be born; to come into existence
他生在中國。 (Tā shēng zài zhōngguó.) - He was born in China.
5. pupil; disciple; student
你作為全日制生必須定期上課。 (Nǐ zuòwèi quánrìzhì shēng bìxū dìngqī shàngkè.) - As a full-time student, you should attend classes on a regular basis.
6. (historical) scholar; Confucian scholar
7. (opera) actor or male character
8. Short for 先生, gentleman
9. (Cantonese, honorific, suffix) Short for 先生, Mr.
10. 陳生 - Mr. Chan
11. having life; live
Synonyms: 活
規矩係死嘅，人係生嘅。 - Rules are lifeless; humans are not.
條魚jyu4-2 啱啱喺條河度釣上soeng5 嚟，仲係生saang1 嘅。 - The fish was just caught with a hook and line from the river. It is still alive.
12. life; existence; being; living
殺生 (shāshēng) - to destroy a life
13. fresh; not stale
14. unripe
15. raw; uncooked
(ant, zh, 熟)
生洋蔥 (shēng yángcōng) - raw onions
我覺gok3得呢ni1 塊肉仲係太生。 - I think this piece of meat is too raw.
16. (historical ethnography) uncultured; uncultivated; wild; uncivilized; savage
生黎 (shēng Lí) - wild Li
17. strange; unfamiliar
生人 (shēngrén) - stranger
18. mechanically; forcedly
19. very; quite; extremely
生怕 (shēngpà) - to fear; to be afraid of
20. vivid; strong; forceful
21. innate; natural; born with
22. living things; organism
23. livelihood; subsistence
謀生 (móushēng) - to make a living
24. lifetime; all one's life
來生 (láishēng) - afterlife
25. birthday; anniversary
慶生 (qìngshēng) - to celebrate one's birthday
26. to bring back to life; to revive; to rescue
27. to generate; to breed; to create
28. to manufacture; to produce
29. to happen; to occur; to take place
30. to catch (a disease)
我生了什麼病？ (Wǒ shēng le shénme bìng?) - What disease have I got?
生seⁿ蛇 (seⁿ-chôa) - to have shingles, MN
31. to be infested by a parasite
生跳蚤 (shēng tiàozǎo) - to be infested with fleas
生蝨乸 - to be infested with lice
32. (Buddhism) to go into society; to be reincarnated
33. (dialectal) to set up; to put in; to settle
34. to light; to ignite (a fire)
母親沒有生爐子zi。 (Mǔqīn méi yǒu shēng lúzi.) - Mother did not light the stove.
35. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note high do (1̇).
Synonyms: 仩
36. (Hong Kong, honorific, suffix) -san, when referring to a Japanese person
菜
1. vegetable; greens
蔬菜 - vegetables -
白菜 - Chinese cabbage -
菠菜 - spinach -
2. (specifically, in compounds) rape; rapeseed (plant used for vegetable oil)
3. 菜籽 - rapeseed -
4. 菜油 - rapeseed oil -
5. dish; course
這道菜很對胃口。 - This dish is tasty.
每次他來這兒r，他都點同樣的菜。 - Whenever he comes to this place, he orders the same dish.
我在考慮我晚飯做什麼菜。 - I'm wondering what to cook for dinner.
6. cuisine; (type of) food
川菜 - Sichuan cuisine -
日本菜 - Japanese food -
7. grocery
買菜 - to buy groceries -
菜市場 - farmers' market -
8. (colloquial) (one's) type; cup of tea
他是我的菜！ - He is my type!
9. (colloquial) bad; inferior; disappointing; below average
菜鳥 - noob -
我好菜啊。 - I'm so inferior to others.
菜英文 - poor English (pun on the name of Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen)
10. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) girlfriend
Cai; Tsai