A菜

Mandarin · pinyin A cài

Meanings

  1. (Tw) A-choy, or Taiwanese lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. sativa) (from Taiwanese 萵仔菜, Tai-lo pr. ue-á-tshài or [e-á-tshài])
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

菜
cài · vegetables; dish, order; food
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Connected dictionary

1character link
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

A菜 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

A菜 · A cai4
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source line 55
Original dictionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & transformation details
Exact source recordA菜 A菜 [A cai4] /(Tw) A-choy, or Taiwanese lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. sativa) (from Taiwanese 萵仔菜, Tai-lo pr. [ue-á-tshài] or [e-á-tshài])/