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豆子

dòu zi

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Measure word 颗

豆子 (dòu zi) means "bean; pea". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 豆子 means

1. bean
2. pea

The characters in 豆子

• 豆dòulegume; pulse; bean; pea (variant of 豆
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我喜欢豆子。
  I like beans.
• 谁喜欢豆子？
  Who likes beans?
• 我不喜欢利马豆子。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan Lìmǎ dòuzi.
  I hate lima beans.
• 你最喜欢用什么方法煮豆子？
  Nǐ zuì xǐhuan yòng shénme fāngfǎ zhǔ dòuzi?
  What's your favorite way to cook beans?
• 很显然我们是豆荚里的俩颗豆子。
  Hěn xiǎnrán wǒmen shì dòujiá lǐ de liǎ kē dòuzi.
  Apparently we're just two peas in a pod.

Words containing 豆子

• 竹筒倒豆子zhú tǒng dào dòu zilike beans pouring out of a bamboo tube (metaphor for blurting everything out at once)

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