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string bean / snap bean / green bean
green bean / French bean / runner bean
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  *豆* | 豆* | *豆
legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗,) / (old) stemmed cup or bowl
kidney bean
coffee beans
okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu)
pea (Pisum sativum)
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
mung bean
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
legume-based product / soybean product
HSK 5
hyacinth bean / haricot
Mr. Bean (TV)
bean / pea / CL: 顆|颗
HSK 7-9
soy bean oil / (dialect) soy sauce
black bean / black bean sauce
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
pressed tofu; dried tofu (ingredient of Chinese cuisine made by pressing, drying and flavoring tofu to produce a firm chewy block, typically cut into thin strips when preparing a dish)
stinky tofu / strong-smelling preserved beancurd / fig. rough exterior but lovable person
tofu / bean curd
HSK 4
home-style tofu
sticky chili bean sauce / doubanjiang
trivial / minute (size)
mashed potato
nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt) / mace / Myristicaceae (family of plants producing aromatic or hallucinogenic oils)
legume / leguminous plant
bean paste bun
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
soy milk
red bean paste
soy milk
HSK 7-9
julienned potato
immature green soy beans, either still in the pod (edamame) or removed from the pod
bean sprouts
green soybean / green peas
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
soybean
to have a sharp tongue but a soft heart (idiom)
(fashion) (loanword) model
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
(loanword) (coll.) idol
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
Pac-Man (computer game)
jellied tofu / soft bean curd
fried tofu (cubes)
bean sprout
hot and sour shredded potato
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
croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科 / croton seed, a strong purgative
macadamia nut
azuki bean; red bean
idiot / porridge head
Dumangang, Korean name of Tumen river 圖們江|图们江 in Jilin province, forming the eastern border between China and North Korea
kidney bean
loafers (the name comes from the rubber "pebbles", which resemble beans, on the sole of some loafers)
sweetened bean paste
see 豆干
egg tofu (a Japanese egg-based delicacy with a smooth, silken texture similar to tofu)
douzhi, fermented drink made from ground mung beans / soy milk
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)
(idiom) (of a girl) 13 or 14 years old; early teens; adolescence
lentil
Fabaceae / Leguminosae / legume family (botany)
lima bean, aka butter bean (Phaseolus lunatus)
cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum)
Douban, PRC social networking website
soybean
fried beans, Sichuan style
green beans in sauce, popular Beijing dish
nattō, a type of fermented soybean, popular as a breakfast food in Japan
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
dried beancurd (tofu)
Indian cardamom (Amomum cardamomum)
cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) / fig. a girl's teenage years / maidenhood / a budding beauty
chickpea (Cicer arietinum) / garbanzo bean
almond tofu; almond jelly (dessert made with apricot kernel milk, sugar and agar)
bean paste bun
variable glycine (Glycine tabacina), a scrambling plant in the bean family
sugar snap pea
white kidney beans
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
yam bean / Pachyrhizus genus
dried tofu made in Daxi, a district of Taoyuan, Taiwan famous for its dried tofu 豆干
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
fermented bean curd
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
(bird species of China) tundra bean goose (Anser serrirostris)
like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)
beanie
dragon bean / long bean
soybean milk / fermented bean curd
chickpea
Bacillus subtilis (formerly Bacillus natto), a common soil bacterium

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