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白菜

bái cài 2–4

Chinese cabbage; pak choi

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
白 · 菜
Syllables
2
bái cài
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 16,930

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 白bái5 strokesHSK 1white; pure, unblemished; bright
  • 菜cài12 strokesHSK 1vegetables; dish, order; food

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 白菜. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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