CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

家常菜

jiāchángcài

home cooking

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

home cooking

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 家常菜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 家常菜 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你最喜欢的家常菜是什麽？nǐ zuì xǐ huān de jiā cháng cài shì shén mó？

What's your favorite home-cooked food?

回锅肉是四川家常菜的灵魂，没有它感觉整桌都少一味。huí guō ròu shì sì chuān jiā cháng cài de líng hún， méi yǒu tā gǎn jué zhěng zhuō dōu shǎo yī wèi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我向服务生丢出了一个问题：「那个是家常菜吗？」服务生微微一笑，回答道：「是的。」当然啊，这确实是家里会准备的料理。只不过接下来的沉默，守住了这道菜是在工厂里预先制作好的这一事实。wǒ xiàng fú wù shēng diū chū le yí gè wèn tí：「nà ge shì jiā cháng cài ma？」 fú wù shēng wēi wēi yī xiào， huí dá dào：「shì de。」 dāng rán a， zhè què shí shì jiā lǐ huì zhǔn bèi de liào lǐ。 zhǐ bù guò jiē xià lái de chén mò， shǒu zhù le zhè dào cài shì zài gōng chǎng lǐ yù xiān zhì zuò hǎo de zhè yī shì shí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 家常菜.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 家常菜.

Directly before

的家常菜1
是家常菜1
四川家常菜1

Directly after

家常菜是1
家常菜吗1
家常菜的1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 家常菜

What does 家常菜 mean in Chinese?

家常菜 (jiāchángcài) means home cooking.

How do you pronounce 家常菜?

家常菜 is pronounced jiāchángcài.

Is 家常菜 an HSK word?

家常菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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