菜

Rare term

picky eating

vegetable

Slang

marijuana; cannabis

Food, cooking

small dish (usu. one of several accompanying rice); side dish

Colloquial; Music

fill; fill-in (drumming)

Vulgar expression or word; Slang; Oft. as オカズ

jack-off material; something to masturbate to

nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets

appetizer or snack served with drinks

肴 only

performance to liven up a bar; conversation to liven up a party

edible wild plants

hors d'oeuvre; appetizer; appetiser; starter

small dish (served as a part of an ordinary household meal); side dish

napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage

stir-fried vegetables

young greens; young herbs

fertile shoot of field horsetail

どひつ only

wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)

wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)

Food, cooking

kimchi; kimchee

kitchen garden

root vegetable

hijiki (dark edible seaweed usu. sold in dried black strips; Hizikia fusiformis)

giant butterbur (Petasites japonicus); Japanese sweet coltsfoot

summer vegetables

fresh vegetables

(edible) greens; leafy greens; vegetables

greens

main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish

Japanese mustard spinach (Brassica rapa var. perviridis)