Japanese Kanji
菜sai
vegetable · side dish · greens
Grade 4 · JLPT N3 · 11 strokes
Vegetable, side dish, greens.
菜 is part of the elementary school jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N3 (intermediate) level. With 11 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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