海菜

Chinese

		ocean; sea	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (海菜)		海	菜
simp. #(海菜)		海	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎicài

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˇ ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi² coi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hái-chhài

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎicài
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˇ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎicài
    • Wade–Giles: hai³-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: hǎi-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haetsay
    • Palladius: хайцай (xajcaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoi² coi³
    • Yale: hói choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoi² tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hoi² coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-chhài
    • Tâi-lô: hái-tshài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hayzhaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰai²¹/

Noun

海菜

1. edible seaweed; sea vegetable

   我買的海菜一泡就軟了，沒韌性了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我买的海菜一泡就软了，没韧性了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ mǎi de hǎicài yī pào jiù ruǎn le, méi rènxìng le. [Pinyin]

   The seaweed I bought went soft as soon as I soaked it and lost its elasticity.

2. (Luoyang Mandarin) kelp; seaweed (Saccharina japonica)

Synonyms

• (edible seaweed): (Eastern Min) 海苔

Dialectal synonyms of 海帶 (“kelp; seaweed (Saccharina japonica)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		海帶, 昆布
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	海帶
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	海帶
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	海帶
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	海帶, 海菜
	Wanrong	海帶
	Xi'an	海帶
	Xining	海帶
	Xuzhou	海帶
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	海帶
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	帶皮, 海帶
	Wuhan	海帶
	Guiyang	海帶
	Liuzhou	海帶
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	海帶
Cantonese	Guangzhou	海帶
	Hong Kong	昆布, 海帶
	Dongguan	海帶
Gan	Nanchang	海帶
	Lichuan	海帶
	Pingxiang	海帶
Hakka	Meixian	帶皮, 海帶
	Yudu	海帶
Huizhou	Jixi	海帶
Jin	Taiyuan	海帶
	Xinzhou	海帶
Northern Min	Jian'ou	海布
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	海帶
Southern Min	Haikou	海帶
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	海帶
Wu	Shanghai	海帶
	Shanghai (Chongming)	海帶
	Suzhou	海帶
	Danyang	海帶
	Hangzhou	海帶
	Ningbo	海帶
	Wenzhou	海帶
	Jinhua	海帶
Xiang	Loudi	海帶

Derived terms

• 海菜腔 (hǎicàiqiāng)

See also

• 海帶／海带 (hǎidài, “seaweed”)
• 海草 (hǎicǎo)
• 海藻 (hǎizǎo)
• 昆布 (kūnbù)