Chinese symbol for “kimchi”
辣白菜
là bái cài
spicy pickled cabbage; kimchi
The closest CC-CEDICT match for kimchi is 辣白菜 (là bái cài), defined as: spicy pickled cabbage; kimchi.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “kimchi”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 辣白菜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辣椒 | là jiāo | hot pepper; chili |
| 辣妹 | là mèi | hot chick; sexy girl |
| 麻辣 | má là | hot and numbing |
| 火辣 | huǒ là | painful heat; scorching |
| 辛辣 | xīn là | spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism) |
| 火辣辣 | huǒ là là | scorching hot; (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning |
| 明白 | míng bai | clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable |
| 白色 | bái sè | white; fig. reactionary |
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
See also: Japanese symbol for “kimchi”.
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.