Chinese symbol for “pickles”
咸菜
xián cài
Traditional: 鹹菜
salted vegetables; pickles
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pickles is 咸菜 (xián cài), defined as: salted vegetables; pickles.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pickles”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 咸菜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咸鱼 (鹹魚) | xián yú | salted fish |
| 咸水 (鹹水) | xián shuǐ | salt water; brine |
| 咸水湖 (鹹水湖) | xián shuǐ hú | salt lake |
| 咸湿 (鹹濕) | xián shī | (Tw) (coll.) obscene; pornographic |
| 咸肉 (鹹肉) | xián ròu | bacon; salt-cured meat |
| 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 “pickles”.
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.