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When you use the word “cai”, does it refer to any type of dish or just vegetable or does it depend on usage?

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Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-04-17 / 05:55PM

“cài” could be used as “food” and “cuisine” for example:

nǐ xǐ huān chī shěn me cài? = What kind of food do you like to eat?

wǒ xǐ huān zhōng guó cài = I like Chinese cuisine

Also it could be used as “vegetable”, for example:

Spinach = bō cài

cabbage = juǎn xīn cài

Benny

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