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).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “menu”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菜谱 (菜譜) | cài pǔ | menu (in restaurant); recipe |
| 功能表 | gōng néng biǎo | menu (software) |
| 餐牌 | cān pái | menu |
| 小册子 (小冊子) | xiǎo cè zi | booklet; pamphlet |
| 选单 (選單) | xuǎn dān | (computing) menu |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 菜单.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蔬菜 | shū cài | vegetables |
| 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 |
| 单位 (單位) | dān wèi | unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole) |
| 简单 (簡單) | jiǎn dān | simple; not complicated |
| 名单 (名單) | míng dān | list 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.