小菜

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (小菜)		小	菜
simp. #(小菜)		小	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xiǎocài

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄘㄞˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xiao³ cai⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² coi³
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁵shiau-tshe₅ / ⁵siau₃-tshe₅
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): siau³ cai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎocài
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎocài
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: syǎu-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheautsay
    • Palladius: сяоцай (sjaocaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎocàir
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄘㄞˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎocàir
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-tsʻai⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: syǎu-tsàir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheautsall
    • Palladius: сяоцайр (sjaocajr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰɑɻ⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xiao³ cai⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xiaocai
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiau⁵³ t͡sʰai²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² coi³
    • Yale: síu choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shiau-tshe₅
    • MiniDict: shiau^去 tshe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xiau-tshe₂
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɔ³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁵siau₃-tshe₅
    • MiniDict: siau^上 tshe^去
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /siæ⁵² t͡sʰe³³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: siau³ cai⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /si̯ɒu̯⁴¹ t͡sʰai̯⁴⁵/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /ɕi̯ɒu̯⁴¹ t͡sʰai̯⁴⁵/

Noun

小菜

1. appetizer
2. small side dish
3. easy job; piece of cake
4. (Southwestern Mandarin, Xiang) vegetable; greens

Synonyms

• (appetizer): 前菜 (qiáncài), 開胃菜／开胃菜 (kāiwèicài)
• (side dish):
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  • 副菜 (fùcài)
  • 副餐 (fùcān)
  • 配菜 (pèicài)
  • 配餐 (pèicān)

   
• (vegetables):
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  • 草蔬 (cǎoshū) (literary)
  • 菜蔬 (càishū)
  • 蔬菜 (shūcài)
  • 青菜 (qīngcài)

   

Dialectal synonyms of 蔬菜 (“vegetables”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		菜, 蔬, 蔬菜, 菜蔬
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		蔬菜, 青菜, 菜蔬
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	青菜
	Singapore	青菜, 菜, 蔬菜
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	青菜
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	青菜, 菜
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	小菜
	Wuhan	小菜, 青菜
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	蔬菜
	Hefei	青菜, 蔬菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	菜
	Hong Kong	菜
	Yangjiang	菜
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	菜
	Singapore (Guangfu)	菜
Gan	Nanchang	青菜
Hakka	Meixian	青菜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	青菜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	青菜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	青菜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	青菜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	青菜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	青菜
Jin	Taiyuan	菜蔬, 菜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	青菜
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	菜, 青菜
Southern Min	Xiamen	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Quanzhou	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Jinjiang	菜蔬
	Zhangzhou	草菜, 菜蔬, 菜
	Singapore (Hokkien)	菜
	Chaozhou	青菜, 菜
	Shantou	青菜
	Jieyang	青菜, 菜, 羹菜
	Singapore (Teochew)	菜
	Pontianak (Teochew)	青菜
	Singapore (Hainanese)	菜
Puxian Min	Putian	青菜, 菜物
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	菜, 青菜
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	青菜
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	青菜, 菜物
	Xianyou	青菜
	Xianyou (Fengting)	青菜
	Xianyou (Youyang)	青菜
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	瓜菜, 蔬菜
Wu	Suzhou	蔬菜
	Wenzhou	菜, 水菜
Xiang	Changsha	小菜
	Shuangfeng	蔬菜, 小菜
	Hengyang	菜

Derived terms

• 小菜一碟 (xiǎocàiyīdié)