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

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