Chinese Word of the Day
生菜shēng cài
lettuce
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 生菜 | shēngcài | |
| 1. n. greens | ||
| 2. n. raw vegetables | ||
| 3. n. lettuce | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| lettuce | ||
| 1. 名词. 生菜 | ||
| Components | ||
| 生 | shēng, shēn | |
| 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 | cài | |
| 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 | ||
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Pronunciation
shēng cài
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