The pinyin for dish is written as cài.

1. Morphological sound. Cai sound. In ancient times, cai only referred to vegetables, excluding meat and eggs, but after the Middle Ages, cai included vegetables, eggs and their cooked foods. Original meaning: vegetables.

Cabbage, the edible of grass. --Shuowen

Pi Ben sacrificed vegetables. Note: "A genus of celery and algae." --Rituals, Records of Learning.

Xi Dance Release Vegetables. --Rituals, Monthly Records

The dish was laid. -- "Rites of Passage, Rites for the Fainting of Scholars"

Anciently, Yu had ten years of water, Tang had seven years of drought, and there was no dish in the world.

2. It refers to all dishes in general.

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The dish (dishes).

3, specifically refers to rape.

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For example: rapeseed (specifically refers to rapeseed that can be extracted); rapeseed oil (that is, rapeseed oil); cauliflower (the flower of rapeseed).

4. Food made to a particular flavor.

Rice is refined and clean, and minced meat and sauce are beautifully seasoned.

Related Words and Interpretations

Vegetable Farm (Dialect): a market for buying and selling vegetables.

Menu: a printed or written list of dishes that can be ordered (as in a restaurant) or specially prepared for the table (as at a banquet). Also called "recipe".

Cutting knife: a kitchen knife used for cutting vegetables and meat.

Cucumber: annual herb with trailing stems and yellow flowers. The fruit is white and green and can be used as a vegetable.