大豆

dàdòu
soybean

CEDICT

  1. (regional) broad bean; fava bean (Vicia faba)
  2. broad bean; fava bean (Vicia faba)
  3. soybean (Glycine max)

Wiktionary

植物名。豆科黄大豆属，一年生草本。叶为三出複叶，卵圆形。夏季开总状紫红色或白色蝶形花。荚果有短柄，扁平线状长椭圆形，上有刚毛。果内藏有种子，种皮以黄、绿、黑最常见，分别称为「青豆」、「黄豆」、「黑豆」。可製豆腐、酱油或榨油供食用。

重編國語辭典

Examples

挤大豆肯定是很累人的工作，需要不停地挤压。

Milking soybeans must be a tiring task, all that squeezing.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 大 dà
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 dàjiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=2 豆 dòu
=2 豆 dòu (old) stemmed cup or bowl

classifiers: 顆, 粒

Containing this entry

大豆黄卷 dàdòuhuángjuǎn

Related entries

黄豆 huángdòu soybean