Lettuce in Chinese (Mandarin): 生菜 (shēngcài)
生菜
shēngcài
lettuce
- Simplified
- 生菜
- Traditional
- 生菜
- Pinyin
- shēngcài
- Typed as
- shengcai
Use it in a sentence
生菜是绿色的，很脆。
生菜是綠色的，很脆。
Lettuce is green and crunchy.
The characters in 生菜
生
Raw, fresh; also to grow.
5 strokes
菜
Vegetable. 艹 (grass) is on top.
11 strokes
生菜 is a "raw vegetable", because lettuce is often eaten raw. 菜 also means a dish of food.
More examples with 生菜
汉堡里有生菜。
漢堡裡有生菜。
Hànbǎo li yǒu shēngcài.
There's lettuce in the hamburger.
兔子喜欢吃生菜。
兔子喜歡吃生菜。
Tùzi xǐhuan chī shēngcài.
Rabbits like lettuce.
How to write 生菜 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
生 5 strokes
菜 11 strokes
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