CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

泡菜

pàocài

pickled cabbage

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

pickled cabbage

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 泡菜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 泡菜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你知道如果你把泡菜插入电源插座，它会发光并且发出嗡嗡的声音吗？nǐ zhī dào rú guǒ nǐ bǎ pào cài chā rù diàn yuán chā zuò， tā huì fā guāng bìng qiě fā chū wēng wēng de shēng yīn ma？

Did you know that if you plug a pickle into an electrical outlet, it glows and makes buzzing noises?

这次任务充满了里程碑：这将是韩国女性首次进入太空轨道，也是代表韩国的蒜味辣白菜——「泡菜」，第一次出现在零重力餐桌上。zhè cì rèn wù chōng mǎn le lǐ chéng bēi： zhè jiāng shì hán guó nǚ xìng shǒu cì jìn rù tài kōng guǐ dào， yě shì dài biǎo hán guó de suàn wèi là bái cài ——「pào cài」， dì yī cì chū xiàn zài líng zhòng lì cān zhuō shàng。

The mission is full of landmarks: it will be the first time a South Korean woman has headed into orbit, and it will also be the first time that "kimchi"—that spicy, garlicky cabbage dish that epitomizes South Korea—will be served at the zero-gravity dinner table.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 泡菜.

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

Directly before

把泡菜1

Directly after

泡菜插入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 泡菜

What does 泡菜 mean in Chinese?

泡菜 (pàocài) means pickled cabbage.

How do you pronounce 泡菜?

泡菜 is pronounced pàocài.

Is 泡菜 an HSK word?

泡菜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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