苦菜

kǔcài
  1. (literally) bitter vegetable
  2. Alternative name for 敗醬／败酱.
  3. bitter vegetable
  4. common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 苦 kǔ
  1. bitter
  2. hardship
  3. pain
  4. to suffer
  5. to bring suffering to
  6. painstakingly
2 菜 cài
  1. (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
  2. (coll.) (one's) type

classifiers: 棵, 樣, 道, 盤

Containing this entry

苦菜花 Kǔcàihuā Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 冯德英 Féng Déyīng, made into a film in 1965