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黄豆

黃豆
huángdòu
noun #25,914

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 soybean
  2. 2 soya bean

About the ingredient

豆类 Beans

Round, pale yellow dried beans, soaked before cooking. Besides becoming tofu, soy milk and soy sauce, they are cooked whole in soups and savoury dishes and sprouted into bean sprouts larger than mung bean ones.

Contains soy

Also called  大豆

Examples

HSK 4
Zhè dào cài lǐ fàng le hěnduō huángdòu.
This dish has a lot of soybeans in it.
HSK 6
Dòufu shì yóu huángdòu zhìchéng de.
Tofu is made from soybeans.

Tips

memory
黄 (yellow) + 豆 (bean) - the yellow bean. Soybeans are indeed yellowish, making this an easy one to remember.

Stroke Order

黄 huáng
豆 dòu