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甜菜

tián cài

2-character word

What 甜菜 means

1. (sugar) beet
2. (US) beet; (UK) beetroot

The characters in 甜菜

• 甜tiánsweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
• 菜càivegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor

Example sentences

• 这不是血。这是甜菜。
  Zhè bù shì xuè. zhè shì tiáncài.
  It's not blood. It's beet.

Sounds the same

Read tián cài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 菾菜variant of 甜菜