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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
mud / clay / paste / pulp
HSK 6
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
quagmire
HSK 7-9
clay figurine
yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine)
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
plasticine / modeling clay
mud / muddy swamp / sump / fig. a sticky predicament
lime plaster (construction)
blind drunk / drunk as drunk can be
mud / mire
loach / mud fish / CL: 條|条
to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over
mudstone / shale
putty (used by plumbers and glaziers)
muddy / mud
(Buddhism) Naraka
(car, bicycle etc) fender; mudguard; (UK) wing
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
restrained
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
red ink paste used for seal
slurry; mud
reinforced concrete
(fig.) a world of difference
reinforced concrete
mashed potato
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety / unable to save oneself, let alone others
Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago)
chlorite (geology)
sealing clay / lute
lit. wading in mud and water / a slovenly job / sloppy
peasant / yokel
mud
silt
to be a stickler for formalities / to rigidly adhere to / to cling to / constrained / ill at ease
peat
silt / sludge / ooze
jujube paste
muddy water / mud / masonry (craft)
mud / sludge
stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative
clay modeling / clay figurine or statue
mason / masonry work
landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide
peat
mason
mud pit / mire / morass
to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute / lute / luting
dirt / grime
clay idol
to gild / gilt
bricklayer / tiler / mason
mud and sand flow together (idiom) / good and bad mingle
clay Bodhisattva
peasant / yokel
plaster / mortar
muddy
to remove mud / desliming (in coal production)
soft mud / silt / sludge / ooze (geology)
as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart
white cement
conservative and unable to adapt (idiom)
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
matted sphagnum moss (Sphagnum palustre)
mashed potato
Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces
to fall flat on one's face
a landslide
playdough
to belittle / to attack sb
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
trowel
to despise titles and high offices
clay doll
stubborn and conservative
poultice
swamp
mudstone (geology)
mudstone
trowel
dredger
the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
Portland cement
boat used for collecting river sludge (to use as a fertilizer)
clay
grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈, to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet
when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
erhua variant of 軟泥|软泥
dirty snow / slush / abbr. for 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪
a goose's footprint in the snow / vestiges of the past (idiom) / the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)
hummus


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