General term for edible leafy greens and vegetables, often used in compounds like 野菜 (vegetables) or 菜食 (vegetarian diet).
These greens are delicious when stir-fried.
Specifically refers to the rape plant (Brassica napus), often in agricultural or botanical contexts. Also used for rapeseed oil (菜種油).
I'm growing vegetables in the field.
The rape blossoms are blooming all over.
Oil is pressed from rapeseed.
菜っ葉 is a colloquial, kitchen-context word for leafy greens, whereas 菜 is a more formal or literary term for the same greens.
young greens; young herbs
komatsuna; Japanese mustard spinach
leaf mustard; mustard greens
mizuna; potherb mustard · Elatostema umbellatum var. majus
leafy green vegetables; greens
rape plant; oilseed rape; Brassica campestris
rapeseed oil; canola oil
edible greens; leafy vegetables
rapeseed; coleseed
Standard kanji spelling. High priority in news and frequency lists.
The kanji 菜 originally depicts a plant with edible leaves. The reading な is a native Japanese word for greens.
mizuna; potherb mustard
winter vegetables; winter greens · tang cai; tong choi; tong choy
Korean lettuce; ssam lettuce
tang cai; Brassica rapa var. toona
Aster yomena; Japanese aster
dried leaves (esp. daikon and turnip)
field horsetail; common horsetail
mizuna; Brassica rapa var. nipposinica
sea kale
cabbage