菜單

See also: 菜单

Chinese

		dish (type of food); vegetables	bill; list; form bill; list; form; single; only; sole; surname; chieftain
trad. (菜單)		菜	單
simp. (菜单)		菜	单
Literally: “dish list”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): càidān

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˋ ㄉㄢ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): цэдан (cedan, III-I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coi³ daan¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhài-toaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cai³ duan¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tshe-te

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càidān
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˋ ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càidan
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻai⁴-tan¹
    • Yale: tsài-dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaydan
    • Palladius: цайдань (cajdanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: càidānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˋ ㄉㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: càidanr
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻai⁴-tan¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: tsài-dānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaydal
    • Palladius: цайданьр (cajdanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tɑɻ⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: цэдан (cedan, III-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴ tæ̃²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: coi³ daan¹
    • Yale: choi dāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi³ daan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: coi³ dan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ taːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhài-toaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshài-tuann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhae'dvoaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tuã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ tuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ tuã⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cai³ duan¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshài tuaⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ tũã³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tshe-te
    • MiniDict: tshe^去 te
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tshe-te
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰe³³ te⁴⁴/

Noun

菜單

1. menu (selection of dishes) (Classifier: 張／张)

   請給我菜單。／请给我菜单。  ―  Qǐng gěi wǒ càidān.  ―  Could I see the menu, please.

   • 1924, Lu Xun, “幸福的家庭 [A Happy Family]”, in 婦女雜誌, volume 10, number 3, 商務印書館, page 512:

     但『龍虎鬥』又是什麼呢？有人說是蛇和貓，是廣東的貴重菜，非大宴會不吃的。但我在江蘇飯館的菜單上就見過這名目，江蘇人似乎不吃蛇和貓，恐怕就如誰所說，是蛙和鱔魚了。 [MSC, trad.]
     但『龙虎斗』又是什么呢？有人说是蛇和猫，是广东的贵重菜，非大宴会不吃的。但我在江苏饭馆的菜单上就见过这名目，江苏人似乎不吃蛇和猫，恐怕就如谁所说，是蛙和鳝鱼了。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang

     Dàn ‘lónghǔdòu’ yòu shì shénme ne? Yǒu rén shuō shì shé hé māo, shì Guǎngdōng de guìzhòng cài, fēi dà yànhuì bù chī de. Dàn wǒ zài Jiāngsū fànguǎn de càidān shàng jiù jiàn guò zhè míngmù, Jiāngsū rén sìhū bù chī shé hé māo, kǒngpà jiù rú shéi suǒ shuō, shì wā hé shànyú le. [Pinyin]

     I must have them eating 'Dragon and Tiger.' But what is that exactly? Some people say it's made of snakes and cats, and is an upper-class Cantonese dish, only eaten at big feasts. I've seen the name on the menu in a Kiangsu restaurant; still, Kiangsu people aren't supposed to eat snakes or cats, so it must be made, as someone else said, of frogs and eels.

2. grocery list
3. (chiefly Mainland China, computing) menu (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed) (Classifier: 個／个)

Synonyms

• (selection of dishes): 菜譜／菜谱 (càipǔ), 食單／食单 (shídān)

Dialectal synonyms of 菜單 (“menu”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		菜單
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	菜單
Cantonese	Guangzhou	餐牌, 菜牌
	Hong Kong	餐牌, 菜牌, menu
	Taishan	餐牌
Southern Min	Manila (Hokkien)	菜單

• (list from which the user may select an operation to be performed): (Taiwan and Hong Kong) 選單／选单 (xuǎndān)