菜
Pinyin: cài
dish; vegetable
Example sentence
妈妈做的菜很好吃。
Māma zuò de cài hěn hǎochī.
Mom's cooking is delicious.
What 菜 means
菜 (cài) is a Chinese word meaning “dish; vegetable”. It belongs to the Food & Drink topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.