Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen counter, a parent steadies a large napa cabbage while a child tries to wrap both arms around another whole head. One cabbage half rests cut-side forward on a wooden board, exposing tightly nested pale leaves and broad white ribs.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

白はく菜さい

hakusai

napa cabbage

Example sentences

  1. こんなにあった白菜はくさいが、煮にるとこれっぽっちになる。

    The cabbage that was this much turns into just this little when cooked.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. お姉ねえちゃんがね、市場いちばでナスとジャガイモとズッキーニあと白菜はくさいを買かってきたよ。

    Our sister bought some eggplants, potatoes, zucchinis and Chinese cabbage at the market.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 白菜はくさいやホウレンソウの本格的ほんかくてきな栽培さいばいもこのころである。

    The cultivation of Chinese cabbage and spinach started in full scale around in this era as well.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 白菜

  • 白whiteOnハク・ビャクKunしろ・しら-・しろい
  • 菜vegetable; side dishOnサイKunな

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