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梅干菜

méi gān cài

3-character word Traditional 梅乾菜

What 梅干菜 means

1. salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)

The characters in 梅干菜

• 梅méiplum; plum flower; Japanese apricot (Prunus mume)
• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 菜càivegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor

Sounds the same

Read méi gān cài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 霉干菜variant of 梅干菜

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