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  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
mud / clay / paste / pulp
HSK 6
cement / CL:
HSK 6
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
quagmire
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
restrained
mud / mire
yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine)
muddy water / mud / masonry (craft)
to be a stickler for formalities / to rigidly adhere to / to cling to / constrained / ill at ease
muddy / mud
(idiom) muddy and wet / (idiom) (of speech, writing etc) slovenly; sloppy; (of actions) indecisive
loach / mud fish / CL: 條|条
peasant / yokel
reinforced concrete
jujube paste
mashed potato
(idiom) a world of difference
reinforced concrete
plasticine / modeling clay
(car, bicycle etc) fender; mudguard; (UK) wing
chlorite (geology)
(Buddhism) Naraka
silt
stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative
sealing clay / lute
clay modeling / clay figurine or statue
thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste
putty (used by plumbers and glaziers)
as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart
peat
to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over
swamp
(coll.) mud
silt / sludge / ooze
mud / sludge
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
mud and sand flow together (idiom) / good and bad mingle
mud / muddy swamp / sump / fig. a sticky predicament
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
bricklayer / tiler / mason
peat
to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute / lute / luting
to gild / gilt
landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide
mason
clay idol
mud pit / mire / morass
dirt / grime
mason / masonry work
peasant / yokel
mashed potato
muddy
mudstone / shale
lime plaster (construction)
soft mud / silt / sludge / ooze (geology)
grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈, to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet
fruit puree; fruit pulp
hummus
dirty snow / slush / abbr. for 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪
useless (idiom) / worthless / inept
plaster / mortar
apple sauce
playdough
trowel
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
conservative and unable to adapt (idiom)
matted sphagnum moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Portland cement
mashed potato
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
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
red ink paste used for seal
to fall flat on one's face
a landslide
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
clay figurine
trowel
clay doll
stubborn and conservative
poultice
slurry; mud
Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago)
clay Bodhisattva
like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety / unable to save oneself, let alone others
mudstone (geology)
mudstone
blind drunk / drunk as drunk can be
dredger
the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle
white cement
boat used for collecting river sludge (to use as a fertilizer)
to remove mud / desliming (in coal production)
clay
erhua variant of 軟泥|软泥
a goose's footprint in the snow / vestiges of the past (idiom) / the fleeting nature of human life (idiom)


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