Chinese symbol for “beet”
甜菜
tián cài
(sugar) beet; (US) beet; (UK) beetroot
The closest CC-CEDICT match for beet is 甜菜 (tián cài), defined as: (sugar) beet; (US) beet; (UK) beetroot.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “beet”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 甜菜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甜蜜 | tián mì | sweet; happy |
| 甜美 | tián měi | sweet; pleasant |
| 甜点 (甜點) | tián diǎn | dessert |
| 甜心 | tián xīn | delighted to oblige; sweetheart |
| 甜食 | tián shí | dessert; sweet |
| 甜品 | tián pǐn | dessert |
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
| 菜单 (菜單) | cài dān | menu; measure word: 份 (fèn), 张 (zhāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “beet”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.