Cantonese Dictionary

菜田

coi3 tin4

Mandarin: cai4 tian2

Vegetable fields

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菜碼兒

coi3 maa5 ji4

Mandarin: cai4 ma3 er5

sliced vegetables

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菜脯

coi3 pou2

dried radish - a Chiuchow-style preserved radish

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菜腳

coi3 goek3

Mandarin: cai4 jiao3

Simplified: 菜脚

remaining vegetable; leftovers

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菜膽

coi3 daam2

Mandarin: cai4 dan3

Simplified: 菜胆

stalk of vegetable

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菜花

coi3 faa1

Mandarin: cai4 hua1

cauliflower

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菜蔬

coi3 so1

Mandarin: cai4 shu1

vegetables; greens; dishes at a meal

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菜薳

coi3 jyun5

Mandarin: cai4 wei3

Simplified: 菜䓕

vegetable leaf

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菜薹

coi3 toi4

Mandarin: cai4 tai2

the tender flower stalk of vegetables

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菜譜

coi3 pou2

Mandarin: cai4 pu3

recipe , cookery book [Syn.] 食譜

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菜頭

coi3 tau4

Mandarin: cai4 tou2

daikon radish; homophone for 彩頭, good luck

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菜頭粿

coi3 tau4 gwo2

chai tow kway, also known as "fried carrot cake"

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菜餃

coi3 gaau2

Mandarin: cai4 jiao3

vegetable dumpling

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菜餚

coi3 ngaau4

Mandarin: cai4 yao2

cooked dish/food (usu meat)

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菜館

coi3 gun2

Mandarin: cai4 guan3

restaurant (dialect term, yet somewhat common)

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菜鳥

coi3 niu5

Mandarin: cai4 niao3

a blockhead, a simpleton; a rookie, a greenhorn

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萇

coeng4

Mandarin: chang2

Simplified: 苌

plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola) | a surname | # adapted from cc-cedict

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萋

cai1

Mandarin: qi1

Celosia argentea | luxuriant | mixed | desolate | crowded | # adapted from cc-cedict

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萋萋

cai1 cai1

Mandarin: qi1 qi1

flourishing; luxuriant

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葱度

cung1 dou2

Mandarin: cong1 du4

scallion or spring onions that has been chopped into an inch in length

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葺

cap1

Mandarin: qi4

to repair | to thatch | to fix | to pile up | to mend | to renovate | to thatch a roof | to polish | to dredge | to overlap | to track down and arrest | # adapted from cc-cedict

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蒼

cong2

Mandarin: cang1

Simplified: 苍

vast and boundless | # adapted from cc-cedict

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蒼南

cong1 naam4

Mandarin: cang1 nan2

Cangnan (place in Zhejiang)

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蒼天

cong1 tin1

Mandarin: cang1 tian1

firmament, domain of the heavens

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蒼山

cong1 saan1

Mandarin: cang1 shan1

Cangshan (place in Shandong)

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蒼梧

cong1 ng4

Mandarin: cang1 wu2

Cangwu (place in Guangxi)

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蒼溪

cong1 kai1

Mandarin: cang1 xi1

Cangxi (place in Sichuan)

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蒼生

cong1 sang1

Mandarin: cang1 sheng1

[literary] common folks; ordinary people; the masses

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蒼白

cong1 baak6

Mandarin: cang1 bai2

pale; wan

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蒼白的

cong1 baak6 dik1

Mandarin: cang1 bai2 de5

[adj] ashen, ashy

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