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Chinese symbol for “menu”

菜单
cài dān
Traditional: 菜單
menu; measure word: 份 (fèn), 张 (zhāng)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for menu is 菜单 (cài dān), defined as: menu; measure word: 份 (fèn), 张 (zhāng).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

菜 cài
vegetables; order, dish; food
radical 140 ⾋ · 12 strokes
单 dān
single, individual, only; lone
radical 24 ⼗ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “menu”

WordPinyinMeaning
菜谱 (菜譜)cài pǔmenu (in restaurant); recipe
功能表gōng néng biǎomenu (software)
餐牌cān páimenu
小册子 (小冊子)xiǎo cè zibooklet; pamphlet
选单 (選單)xuǎn dān(computing) menu

Related words

Other words that share a character with 菜单.

WordPinyinMeaning
蔬菜shū càivegetables
菜肴 (菜餚)cài yáovegetable and meat dishes; dish
菠菜bō càispinach (CL:棵 (kē)); (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩 (bó cǎi))
白菜bái càiChinese 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
单位 (單位)dān wèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
简单 (簡單)jiǎn dānsimple; not complicated
名单 (名單)míng dānlist of names

See also: Japanese symbol for “menu”.

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.

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