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。豆科黃大豆屬，一年生草本。葉為三出複葉，卵圓形。夏季開總狀紫紅色或白色蝶形花。莢果有短柄，扁平線狀長橢圓形，上有剛毛。果內藏有種子，種皮以黃、綠、黑最常見，分別稱為「青豆」、「黃豆」、「黑豆」。可製豆腐、醬油或榨油供食用。

重編國語辭典

Examples

擠大豆肯定是很累人的工作，需要不停地擠壓。

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

大豆黃卷 dàdòuhuángjuǎn

Related entries

黃豆 huángdòu soybean