Chinese symbol for “leftovers”
剩菜
shèng cài
leftovers (food)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for leftovers is 剩菜 (shèng cài), defined as: leftovers (food).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “leftovers”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 落脚 (落腳) | luò jiǎo | to stay for a time; to stop over |
| 馂 (餕) | jùn | (literary) leftovers (of a meal); (literary) to eat leftovers |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 剩菜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剩下 | shèng xià | to remain; to be left over |
| 剩余 (剩餘) | shèng yú | to remain; to be left over; what remains; what's left |
| 过剩 (過剩) | guò shèng | to be excessive; to be more than is required |
| 所剩无几 (所剩無幾) | suǒ shèng wú jǐ | there is not much left |
| 剩饭 (剩飯) | shèng fàn | leftover food |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “leftovers”.
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.