Meaning
greens · side dish · vegetable
On'yomi
サイ
Kun'yomi
な
Common compounds (16)
- 惣菜 そうざいsmall dish (served as a part of an ordinary household meal); side dish
- 野菜 やさいvegetable
- 海苔 ノリnori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
- 山菜 さんさいedible wild plants
- 菜園 さいえんvegetable garden
- お菜 おさいfill; fill-in (drumming)
- 菜の花 なのはなrape blossoms; rapeseed flowers
- 蕗 ふふきgiant butterbur (Petasites japonicus); Japanese sweet coltsfoot
- 前菜 ぜんさいhors d'oeuvre; appetizer; appetiser; starter
- 和布 ワカメwakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)
- 若菜 わかなyoung greens; young herbs
- 菜食 さいしょくvegetable diet