Word and Radical Components of 菠菜
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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菠菜 | 1. spinach |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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菠菜 | 1. spinach |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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菠 | bō | 1. (zh-used2, c) | 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 |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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艸 | 1. grass | |
2. Variant of 草 | 波 | bō, pō | 1. wave; breaker |
2. undulation | ||
3. (physics) wave | ||
聲波 (shēngbō) - sound wave | ||
微波 (wēibō) - microwave | ||
4. (Sichuanese, including, Chongqing and Neijiang) elderly person | ||
5. Short for 波蘭, Poland | ||
6. Short for 波斯, Persia | ||
7. (zh-used, 波羅,) Alternative form of 菠蘿 | ||
8. (Cantonese, Leizhou Min, Hainanese) ball | ||
9. (Cantonese) ball game, especially football | ||
10. (Cantonese) team in a ball game, especially football | ||
11. (Cantonese) automotive gear, gearbox; transmission | ||
低波 - low gear | ||
12. (Hong Kong Cantonese) typhoon signal (issued by the Hong Kong Observatory) | ||
八 號 波 - Typhoon Signal No. 8 | ||
13. (chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese figurative) boob; breast | ||
14. (Hong Kong Cantonese) ball; dance party | ||
15. (Hong Kong Cantonese figuratively, always with the classifier) responsibility | ||
16. Variant of 簸 |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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艸 | 1. grass | |
2. Variant of 草 | 采 | cài | 1. Simplified form of 採 |
2. Variant of 彩 |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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水 | shuǐ | 1. water |
請 給 我 一 杯 水,謝謝。 (Qǐng gěi wǒ yī bēi shuǐ, xièxiè.) - A glass of water, please. | ||
喝水 - hēshuǐ - to drink water | ||
冰水 - bīngshuǐ - iced water | ||
冷水 - lěngshuǐ - cold water | ||
凍水 - dung3 seoi2 - cold water, C | ||
熱水 - rèshuǐ - hot water | ||
開水 - kāishuǐ - boiled water | ||
滾水 - gwan2 seoi2 - boiled water, C | ||
水族館 - shuǐzúguǎn - aquarium | ||
水彩 - shuǐcǎi - watercolour | ||
水溫 - shuǐwēn - water temperature | ||
雨水 - yǔshuǐ - rainwater | ||
海水 - hǎishuǐ - seawater | ||
飲用水 - yǐnyòngshuǐ - drinking water | ||
礦泉水 - kuàngquánshuǐ - mineral water | ||
蒸餾水 - zhēngliúshuǐ - distilled water | ||
水閘 - shuǐzhá - sluice | ||
水力發電 - shuǐlìfādiàn - hydroelectricity | ||
碳水化合物 - tànshuǐhuàhéwù - carbohydrate | ||
脫水 - tuōshuǐ - to dehydrate; dehydration | ||
水中毒 - shuǐzhōngdú - water intoxication; water poisoning | ||
雙氧水 - shuāngyǎngshuǐ, lit=water with two oxygen (atoms) - hydrogen peroxide | ||
2. liquid; potion; juice | ||
口水 - kǒushuǐ - saliva | ||
汗水 - hànshuǐ - sweat | ||
羊水 - yángshuǐ - amniotic fluid | ||
香水 - xiāngshuǐ - perfume | ||
眼藥水 - yǎnyàoshuǐ - eyedrop | ||
3. (colloquial, mainly, Singapore, Malaysia) Synonym of 飲料 (beverage) | ||
要 叫 什麼 水? (Yào jiào shénme shuǐ?) - What beverage do you want to order? | ||
欲 叫 什sím物 水? (Beh kiò sím-mi̍h chúi?) - What beverage do you want to order?, MN | ||
4. (archaic) river | ||
漢水 - Hànshuǐ - the Han River | ||
5. body of water | ||
水路 - shuǐlù - waterway | ||
三 面 環 水 (sān miàn huán shuǐ) - to be surrounded by (bodies of) water on three sides | ||
6. flood | ||
發水 - fāshuǐ - to flood | ||
7. additional cost or income | ||
8. (dialectal) rain | ||
9. (Cantonese) money | ||
磅水 - bong6 seoi2 - to pay, C | ||
掠loek6-1水 - loek6-1 seoi2 - to obtain money dishonestly, C | ||
10. (Cantonese) hundred dollars | ||
三 嚿 水 - saam1 gau6 seoi2 - three hundred dollars, C | ||
11. (Cantonese) source of revenue | ||
12. (Cantonese) to fool; to deceive; to misguide | ||
13. to swim | ||
水性 - shuǐxìng - swimming ability | ||
14. (colloquial) lacking substance or power; worthless | ||
這裡 的 大學 太 水 了。 (Zhèlǐ de dàxué tài shuǐ le.) - The universities here are too weak. | ||
15. Short for 划水, gloss=to shirk; to slack off | ||
16. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行) | ||
17. (colloquial) Classifier for the number of times clothing was washed. | ||
18. Sui people | ||
水書 - shuǐshū - Shuishu (the traditional writing system of the Sui people) | ||
19. Variant of 媠 | 皮 | pí | 1. skin; peel; shell |
甩皮 - to have flaky skin; to have peeling skin | ||
樹皮 - bark | ||
香蕉 皮 - banana peel | ||
2. hide; leather | ||
皮鞋 - leather shoes | ||
3. wrapper; cover; skin | ||
餃子zi 皮 - jiaozi wrapper | ||
4. surface; top part | ||
水皮 - water surface | ||
5. rubber | ||
6. thin sheet | ||
鐵皮 - iron sheet | ||
7. outer; superficial | ||
8. sticky; glutinous | ||
9. soggy; non-crispy | ||
10. naughty; disobedient | ||
11. thick-skinned | ||
12. pico- (SI unit prefix) | ||
13. (Cantonese, colloquial) ten thousand dollars | ||
14. (Cantonese) Short for 皮費, operation expense |
Component | Pinyin | Meanings |
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爪 | zhuǎ, zhǎo | 1. claw (of animal, bird); talon; paw; nail |
2. (Hakka) to grab with claws | ||
3. claw-like object; foot (of an item) | ||
4. (derogatory or humorous) hand (of a person) | ||
5. (Quanzhou, &, Xiamen Hokkien) nail (of a person) | ||
6. =====Usage notes===== | ||
7. (Min Nan) to claw; to scratch (with one's claw or nail) | ||
8. (Quanzhou, &, Xiamen Hokkien) | 木 | mù | 1. tree; woody plant |
Synonyms: 樹 | ||
樹木 - tree | ||
灌木 - shrub | ||
木芍藥 - tree peony | ||
2. wood; timber | ||
木頭tou - log | ||
3. wooden | ||
這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood | ||
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden | ||
木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate | ||
棺木 - coffin | ||
就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin) | ||
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒) | ||
有木有 - innit, damn right | ||
6. numb | ||
麻木 - numb, insensitive | ||
她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold. |