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白菜

báicài

Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)

02

sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 白菜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白菜 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

这麽大的白菜煮熟了就变这麽小了。zhè mó dà de bái cài zhǔ shú le jiù biàn zhè mó xiǎo le。

The cabbage that was this big becomes this small after being cooked.

对我们兔子来说,白菜就是「白偷来的菜」。duì wǒ men tù zi lái shuō, bái cài jiù shì 「bái tōu lái de cài」。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 白菜.

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

Directly before

  • 的白菜1

Directly after

  • 白菜就是1
  • 白菜煮熟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 白菜

What does 白菜 mean in Chinese?

白菜 (báicài) means Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis).

How do you pronounce 白菜?

白菜 is pronounced báicài.

Is 白菜 an HSK word?

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

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