dish (type of food) / vegetable / cuisine / CL:盤|盘[pan2],道[dao4] / (coll.) (one's) type / (of one's skills etc) weak / poor

= + : The King oh Chu (c) is busy preparing a dish (菜) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He is using two plectrums (采) to pluck out parts of a mat of artificial lawn (艹).

菜 character breakdown

to pick / to pluck / to collect / to select / to choose / to gather

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a plectrum.

= + : The King of Chu (c) decorated the airplane's (ai3) Christmas trees (木) with plectrums (采), now it's time to decorate himself. He selects parts of his beard to shave with an electric razor (爫), then goes on to select some of the leaves to pluck them out and put them in his partly shaved face.
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.
color / complexion / looks / variant of 彩[cai3] / variant of 採|采[cai3]
allotment to a feudal noble

Characters with 菜 as component

菜 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 菜

pickled cabbage
oilseed rape (Brassica napus) / flowering edible rape (Brassica chinensis var. oleifera)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
Stop it! (Beijing and Internet slang) / Game over! / You're dead!
water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
hot pickled mustard tuber
cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis)
oilseed rape (Brassica campestris) / rapeseed / coleseed
cabbage / broccoli / cauliflower

Sentences with 菜

hái
ér
men
 
 
zhè
xia̅n
jiǔ
xia̅n
cài