CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

香菜

xiāngcài

coriander

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

coriander

cilantro

Coriandrum sativum

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 香菜 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 香菜 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

韩国人不喜欢吃香菜。hán guó rén bù xǐ huān chī xiāng cài。

Koreans don't like eating cilantro.

七个月前，一家名为苏克埃尔塔耶布的黎巴嫩社会企业的厨师开始教这些妇女新的烹饪技能，包括萨姆克哈拉 (在鱼里塞满松子、香菜和辣椒酱) 和马阿穆尔饼乾等传统菜肴。qī gè yuè qián， yī jiā míng wèi sū kè āi ěr tǎ yé bù de lí bā nèn shè huì qǐ yè de chú shī kāi shǐ jiào zhè xiē fù nǚ xīn de pēng rèn jì néng， bāo kuò sà mǔ kè hā lā ( zài yú lǐ sāi mǎn sōng zi、 xiāng cài hé là jiāo jiàng ) hé mǎ ā mù ěr bǐng qián děng chuán tǒng cài yáo。

Seven months ago, chefs from a Lebanese social enterprise named Souk el Tayeb began teaching the women new cooking skills, including such traditional dishes as samke harra — fish stuffed with pine nuts, coriander and chili sauce — and ma'amoul cookies.

吃不吃香菜？chī bù chī xiāng cài？

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 香菜.

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

Directly before

吃香菜2
牛香菜1
不吃香菜1

Directly after

香菜和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 香菜

What does 香菜 mean in Chinese?

香菜 (xiāngcài) means coriander.

How do you pronounce 香菜?

香菜 is pronounced xiāngcài.

Is 香菜 an HSK word?

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

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