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tofu / bean curd
HSK 4
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten
HSK 7-9
to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc)
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
to fight corruption and advocate probity
to rot / to putrefy / (fig.) corrupt
HSK 7-9
stinky tofu / strong-smelling preserved beancurd / fig. rough exterior but lovable person
home-style tofu
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
rotproof / antiseptic / anti-corrosion
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
perishable
flowing water does not rot
to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart (idiom)
pedantic / trite / inflexible / adherence to old ideas
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate
HSK 7-9
fried tofu (cubes)
blood tofu (coagulated animal blood)
to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb
to grumble / to chatter away incessantly
anti-corruption
(lit. and fig.) corrosive / corrosiveness
fujoshi (woman who likes manga about male homosexual love) (derived from Japanese 腐女子 "fujoshi")
to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration
egg tofu (a Japanese egg-based delicacy with a smooth, silken texture similar to tofu)
rolls of dried soymilk cream (used in cooking after being rehydrated)
okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu)
tofu skin (made by drying the skin that forms on the surface of soymilk during cooking, and therefore not actually made from tofu)
corruption
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
humic acid
to rot / to spoil / (fig.) to become corrupted
putrid belching (medical term)
anti-corruption
putrid belching with regurgitation of stomach acid (medical term)
proof against corrosion
decomposed corpse
rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
trite / clichéd / empty and trite / banality / platitude
lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it / fig. let's not talk of this (pun on )
almond tofu; almond jelly (dessert made with apricot kernel milk, sugar and agar)
fermented bean curd
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decay / rotten
rotting flesh; carrion
a corrosive (chemical)
jerry-built building project / lit. built on soybean dregs
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
lit. knife mouth but heart of bean curd; sharp tongue concealing a caring heart
see 豆干
(idiom) corruption
corruption
preservative / antiseptic
corrosion / to corrode (degrade chemically) / to rot / corruption
HSK 7-9
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd / fig. to bully the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
pickled tofu
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
to detest sth or sb to the utmost extreme (idiom)
putrid belching (medical term)
fermented soybean curd
outmoded / decadent / decaying
the crime of corruption
four seasons beancurd
Cymbidium macrorrhizum Lindl.
belching of sour putrid gas (medical term)
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
UK (slang term reflecting a perception of UK as decadent for its attitudes toward homosexuality)
scavenger


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