Chinese symbol for “cuisine”
菜系
cài xì
(regional) cuisine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cuisine is 菜系 (cài xì), defined as: (regional) cuisine.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “cuisine”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烹饪法 (烹飪法) | pēng rèn fǎ | cuisine; culinary art |
| 料理 | liào lǐ | to arrange; to handle |
| 摒挡 (摒擋) | bìng dàng | (literary) to put in order; to arrange; cuisine |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 菜系.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
| 菜单 (菜單) | cài dān | menu; measure word: 份 (fèn), 张 (zhāng) |
| 菜肴 (菜餚) | cài yáo | vegetable and meat dishes; dish |
| 菠菜 | bō cài | spinach (CL:棵 (kē)); (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩 (bó cǎi)) |
| 白菜 | bái cài | Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) |
| 菜鸟 (菜鳥) | cài niǎo | (coll.) sb new to a particular subject; rookie |
| 关系 (關係) | guān xi | relation; relationship; connection; to concern; to involve; to affect |
| 系统 (系統) | xì tǒng | system; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cuisine”.
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.