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 (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵shiau-tshe
• 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/
  • (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
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shiau-tshe
    • MiniDict: shiau^去 tshe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xiau-tshe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɔ³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
• 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

• 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
Mandarin	Beijing	青菜
	Jinan	青菜
	Xi'an	青菜, 菜
	Wuhan	小菜, 青菜
	Chengdu	小菜
	Yangzhou	蔬菜
	Hefei	青菜, 蔬菜
	Singapore	青菜, 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
	Singapore (Teochew)	菜
	Pontianak (Teochew)	青菜
	Singapore (Hainanese)	菜
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	瓜菜, 蔬菜
Wu	Suzhou	蔬菜
	Wenzhou	菜, 水菜
Xiang	Changsha	小菜
	Shuangfeng	蔬菜, 小菜

Derived terms

• 小菜一碟 (xiǎocàiyīdié)