Dictionary › 心急吃不了热豆腐

心急吃不了热豆腐

xīn jí chī bu liǎo rè dòu fu

8-character word Traditional 心急吃不了熱豆腐

What 心急吃不了热豆腐 means

1. hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom)
2. one just has to be patient
3. haste will ruin everything

The characters in 心急吃不了热豆腐

• 心xīnheart; mind; intention
• 急jíurgent; pressing; rapid
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 热rèto warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather)
• 豆dòulegume; pulse; bean; pea (variant of 豆
• 腐fǔdecay; rotten

Example sentences

• 心急吃不了热豆腐。
  A watched pot never boils.