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紫菜 (zǐ cài): Seaweed — Meaning & Stroke Order

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紫菜 consists of 2 characters.

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Pinyinzǐ cài

Meaningseaweed

Characters2

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Word紫菜

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More HSK vocabulary that shares characters with 紫菜.

Words with 紫

紫檀zǐ tán
紫红zǐ hóng
紫色zǐ sè
紫薇zǐ wēi
姚黄魏紫yáo huáng wèi zǐ

Words with 菜

菜单cài dānHSK 3
蔬菜shū càiHSK 5
菜肴cài yáoHSK 7-9
小菜一碟xiǎo cài yī diéHSK 7-9
咸菜xián cài
浇菜jiāo cài
湘菜xiāng cài
烩菜huìcài

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Example Sentences with 紫菜

Wǒ我

xǐ喜

huān欢

zài在

tāng汤

lǐ里

fàng放

zǐ紫

cài菜

。

I like to put seaweed in soup.