卷心菜 (juǎnxīncài) · cabbage

Measure Word

一棵卷心菜 kē

Meanings

1 cabbage

About the ingredient

蔬菜 Vegetables

Round, tightly packed heads of pale green leaves, crisp and sweet. The everyday stir-fry vegetable: torn by hand and fried hot with dried chili and vinegar (手撕包菜), or cooked in dry pots with pork.

Also called 包菜、圆白菜、包心菜、洋白菜、莲花白

Used in 11 dishes

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

卷心菜是一种很便宜的蔬菜。

Juǎnxīncài shì yì zhǒng hěn piányi de shūcài.

Cabbage is a very cheap vegetable.

Tips

memory

卷 (to roll/curl) + 心 (heart/center) + 菜 (vegetable) - a vegetable that rolls up around its center. The name perfectly describes how cabbage leaves wrap around the core.