Day 10: Eat Your Veggies! Mandarin Words for Vegetables 🥕🥦🍅

welcome to Day 10 of our 30-Day Thematic Chinese Word Challenge!

Awesome work learning fruit names yesterday! Today, we continue our healthy eating theme with Vegetables (蔬菜 – shūcài)! Knowing these words is useful for cooking, shopping, and talking about healthy meals.

Let’s learn 10 common vegetables in Mandarin Chinese!

Today’s 10 Thematic Words: Vegetables

Time to learn your veggies! Listen carefully to the pronunciation in today’s video lesson.

白菜 (báicài) – Chinese Cabbage / Bok Choy
胡萝卜 (húluóbo) – Carrot
土豆 (tǔdòu) – Potato
番茄 (fānqié) – Tomato
黄瓜 (huángguā) – Cucumber
菠菜 (bōcài) – Spinach
茄子 (qiézi) – Eggplant / Aubergine
青椒 (qīngjiāo) – Green Pepper
洋葱 (yángcōng) – Onion
南瓜 (nánguā) – Pumpkin

(So many healthy and delicious options!)

Watch Today’s Quick Lesson!

Ready to explore the vegetable patch? Watch our quick YouTube Short for Day 10 to hear these vegetable names.

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Excellent work on Day 10! You’re building a great vocabulary for talking about food.

Tomorrow’s Theme (Day 11): We’ll learn about Meals and Meal Times (餐和用餐时间 – cān hé yòngcān shíjiān)! See you then! 再见 (Zàijiàn)!