鹹菜燒豆腐
Chinese
| salted vegetable; pickle | to burn; to cook; to stew to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; fever |
tofu; bean curd; any food with tofu-like physical quality | ||
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| trad. (鹹菜燒豆腐) | 鹹菜 | 燒 | 豆腐 | |
| simp. (咸菜烧豆腐) | 咸菜 | 烧 | 豆腐 | |
Etymology
For the idiom, it is short for ，有鹽在先／咸菜烧豆腐，有盐在先 (“salted vegetables and tofu, have the salted one first”), a wordplay on 有言在先 (yǒuyán zàixiān).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xiáncài shāo dòufu
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ ˙ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: siáncài shao dòufů
- Wade–Giles: hsien2-tsʻai4 shao1 tou4-fu5
- Yale: syán-tsài shāu dòu-fu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyantsay shau dow.fu
- Palladius: сяньцай шао доуфу (sjanʹcaj šao doufu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ toʊ̯⁵¹ fu¹/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xiáncài shāo dòufǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ ㄈㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: siáncài shao dòufǔ
- Wade–Giles: hsien2-tsʻai4 shao1 tou4-fu3
- Yale: syán-tsài shāu dòu-fǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyantsay shau dowfuu
- Palladius: сяньцай шао доуфу (sjanʹcaj šao doufu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ toʊ̯⁵¹ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)+
Noun
鹹菜燒豆腐
- salted vegetables and tofu (dish)
Idiom
鹹菜燒豆腐
- (xiehouyu) to make it clear beforehand; to forewarn