青豆

qīngdòu
noun #34,395

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 green peas
  2. 2 green soybean (edamame)

Examples

Māma zuò le yī pán xiārén chǎo qīngdòu.
Mom made a plate of stir-fried shrimp with green peas.
Cūnshàng Chūnshù yǒu yī běn xiǎoshuō jiào 《1Q84》, nǚ zhǔjué míngjiào Qīngdòu.
Haruki Murakami has a novel called 1Q84 in which the heroine is named Aomame (Green Peas).

Tips

usage
青豆 covers two related foods: green peas (the small round ones in fried rice) and young/green soybeans, also known as (máodòu, edamame in the pod). Context disambiguates — in restaurants 青豆 typically means peas; on menus listing vs 青豆, 青豆 is the shelled green soybean.

In Pop Culture

青豆 Qīngdòu
Aomame
Female protagonist of Haruki Murakami's novel 《1Q84》(2009-2010); her Japanese surname 青豆 (Aomame, 'green peas') is rendered with the same characters in the Chinese translation.

Stroke Order

qīng
dòu