白 bái
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 白 — white
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
白菜
báicài
Chinese cabbage
Characters in this word
菜 cài
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 采 to collect, to gather
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我买白菜。 Wǒ mǎi báicài. I buy Chinese cabbage.
- 白菜很好吃。 Báicài hěn hǎochī. Chinese cabbage is very tasty.
- 妈妈炒白菜。 Māma chǎo báicài. Mom stir-fries Chinese cabbage.