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蔬菜

shū cài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

蔬菜 (shū cài) means "vegetables". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 蔬菜 means

1. vegetables

The characters in 蔬菜

• 蔬shūvegetables
• 菜càivegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor

Example sentences

• 多吃点蔬菜。
  Eat a lot of vegetables.
• 她只吃蔬菜。
  She eats nothing but vegetables.
• 你得吃蔬菜。
  You should eat vegetables.
• 橙子不是蔬菜。
  Oranges are not vegetables.
• 蔬菜不能说话。
  Vegetables can't talk.
• 你应该多吃蔬菜。
  You should eat more vegetables.

Words containing 蔬菜

• 绿叶蔬菜lǜ yè shū càileafy green vegetable; leafy greens

Where 蔬菜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitude, Light Food & Contempt (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shū cài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.