虀 (jī) - Minced or pickled vegetables, especially referring to finely

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虀 · jī

Minced or pickled vegetables, especially referring to finely chopped or pickled condiments.

Minced or pickled vegetables, especially referring to finely

Usage highlights

pickled vegetablesminced gingereat picklesfine condimentssaltvinegar

Synonyms

  • 齑— minced or pickled vegetables (variant form)
  • 腌菜— pickled vegetables
  • 咸菜— salted vegetables

Antonyms

  • 鲜— fresh (as opposed to preserved)
  • 珍馐— delicacies (as opposed to simple pickled food)

Usage & contexts

Examples

  • He likes to eat pickled vegetables (食虀).
  • This dish uses minced ginger as seasoning (姜虀).
  • In ancient times, people preserved vegetables as pickles (菜虀).
  • The recipe calls for finely chopped condiments (细虀).

Collocations

  • pickled vegetables(菜虀)
  • minced ginger(姜虀)
  • eat pickles(食虀)
  • fine condiments(细虀)
  • salt-pickled vegetables(盐虀)
  • vinegar-pickled vegetables(醋虀)

Idioms

  • Eating pickles and breaking the jar — being miserly to the extreme(食虀击瓮)
  • Breaking jars and smashing pots for pickles — extreme stinginess(击瓮碎虀)
  • Salt-pickled vegetables and bean soup — simple peasant food(盐虀豆粥)

Cultural background

FAQ
  • 虀 was a common preserved food in ancient China, especially among common people.
  • In classical literature, eating pickles often symbolized a frugal or impoverished lifestyle.
  • The character appears in historical texts describing simple peasant diets and food preservation methods.

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