The Chinese word for lettuce is
生菜
shēng càiChinese 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 | |
Antonyms: 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 |
Translations for 菜 and their definitions
萵苣 | |
1. n. lettuce | |
2. n. celtuce |
莴苣 | |
1. Simplified form of 萵苣 |
生菜 | |
1. n. greens | |
2. n. raw vegetables | |
3. n. lettuce |
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