豆

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

beans

HSK 4 N1

dòu

トウ、ズ

まめ、まめ-

두

Pictograph of a stemmed bowl. Based on the original meaning "vessel with a neck". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

豆

Regular

Modern

Chinese

豆 [dòu]

bean; pea; CL:棵[kē],粒[lì]; sacrificial vessel

Japanese

豆、荳、菽まめ、マメ同音

noun

legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; pea
soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy
colloquial female genitalia (esp. the clitoris)
food colloquialusually kana kidney

prefix

small; miniature; baby; midget; small-scale
child

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

飲む分だけ豆をローストして、ミルで挽くんです。

We roast just enough beans for the amount we're going to drink, and grind them in the coffee mill.

Japanese Names

豆まめ

Mame surname

豆まめさき

Mamesaki surname

CHINESE WORDS (200)

豆浆 [dòujiāng] #29,966

soy milk

豆浆 [dòujiāng] #29,966

Douban, PRC social networking website

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

⭐ 豆 [まめ] #6,162

legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses)

⭐ 豆腐 [とうふ] #13,072

tofu

⭐ 納豆 [なっとう] #18,728

natto (fermented soybeans)

伊豆 [いず] #22,230

Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

⭐ 小豆 [あずき] #26,851

adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)

⭐ 大豆 [だいず] #28,014

soya bean (Glycine max)

edamame (green soybeans)

⭐ 豆知識 [まめちしき] #40,105

trivia

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KOREAN WORDS (5)

두부 #9,938

tofu

녹두

mung beans; green gram