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菜
Meaning
- vegetable; greens
- dish (of food)
- (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
Example sentence
请吃点菜。
Please eat something.
The character 菜
菜 is 艹, the grass radical, over 采, to pick — a plant picked to eat. It runs from the vegetable to the dish on the table: 白菜 napa cabbage, 中国菜 Chinese food, 菜单 the list of them, a menu.