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菜 — vegetable; greens; dish

vegetable; greens; dish; weak; poor; type

Pinyin
cài
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 菜: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

菜 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 菜 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 菜càivegetable; greens; dish; weak; poor; typeHSK 1
  2. 菜单càidānmenuHSK 3
  3. 蔬菜shūcàivegetablesHSK 5
  4. 菜肴càiyáovegetable and meat dishes; dishHSK 7–9
  5. 小菜一碟xiǎocài-yìdiéa small appetizer; a piece of cake; very easyHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.