"菜心" meaning in Chinese

See 菜心 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ sɐm⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Xiamen], /t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sim³³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Quanzhou], /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Zhangzhou], /t͡sʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Taipei], /t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ sim⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung], /t͡sʰe³³ ɕin⁴⁴/ [Wu, Northern, Shanghai, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴ ɕin⁵³/ [Wu, Northern, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 菜心
  1. choy sum (Chinese vegetable in the Brassica family)
    Sense id: en-菜心-zh-noun-O95ONDzt Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Brassicas Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 98 2 Disambiguation of Brassicas: 96 4
  2. heart (of a cabbage, etc.)
    Sense id: en-菜心-zh-noun-7Jf8iNVA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 菜薹 (càitái)
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "choy sum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: choy sum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: choy sum"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "chye sim",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: chye sim",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: chye sim"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "菜心",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Brassicas",
          "orig": "zh:Brassicas",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "choy sum (Chinese vegetable in the Brassica family)"
      ],
      "id": "en-菜心-zh-noun-O95ONDzt",
      "links": [
        [
          "choy sum",
          "choy sum"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "heart (of a cabbage, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-菜心-zh-noun-7Jf8iNVA",
      "links": [
        [
          "heart",
          "heart"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càixīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄞˋ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhài-sim"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshe-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshae-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càixīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄞˋ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càisin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsʻai⁴-hsin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsài-syīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsayshin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "cajsinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цайсинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "choi sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsoi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhài-sim"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshài-sim"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhaesym"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sim³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshe-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "MiniDict"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshe^去 shin^平"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai",
        "Wiktionary-specific",
        "romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "²tshe-xin₁"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰe³³ ɕin⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshae-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "MiniDict"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshae^去 shin^平"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴ ɕin⁵³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "Jiaxing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "càitái",
      "word": "菜薹"
    }
  ],
  "word": "菜心"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 心",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 菜",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "zh:Brassicas"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "choy sum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: choy sum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: choy sum"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "chye sim",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: chye sim",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: chye sim"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "菜心",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "choy sum (Chinese vegetable in the Brassica family)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choy sum",
          "choy sum"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "heart (of a cabbage, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heart",
          "heart"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càixīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄞˋ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhài-sim"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshe-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshae-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càixīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄞˋ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "càisin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsʻai⁴-hsin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsài-syīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsayshin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "cajsinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цайсинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "choi sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsoi³ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "coi³ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhài-sim"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshài-sim"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhaesym"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sim³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ sim⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshe-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "MiniDict"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshe^去 shin^平"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai",
        "Wiktionary-specific",
        "romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "²tshe-xin₁"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰe³³ ɕin⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Shanghai",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "⁵tshae-shin₁"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "MiniDict"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshae^去 shin^平"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴ ɕin⁵³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Jiaxing",
        "Jiaxing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "càitái",
      "word": "菜薹"
    }
  ],
  "word": "菜心"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 菜心 meaning in Chinese (4.2kB)

{
  "called_from": "linkages/371",
  "msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (choy sum): 菜薹 (càitái) desc=choy sum rest=菜薹 (càitái) cls=romanization cls2=other e1=True e2=False",
  "path": [
    "菜心"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "菜心",
  "trace": ""
}

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