菜 = 艹 + 采

菜 is a Chinese hanzi, listed here under the keyword “vegetables”. It is built from 艹 (grass) and 采 (collect).

Keyword: vegetables
Pinyin (Mandarin): cài
Script: Chinese hanzi
Also known as: овощи
Same glyph as a Japanese kanji: 菜 vegetable

Decomposition

ids

艹 grass
采 collect

How to find 菜 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “grass” + “collect”. 菜 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 菜 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.