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Chinese symbol for “tofu”

豆腐
dòu fu
tofu; bean curd

The closest CC-CEDICT match for tofu is 豆腐 (dòu fu), defined as: tofu; bean curd.

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Characters and stroke order

豆 dòu
beans, peas; bean-shaped
radical 151 ⾖ · 7 strokes
腐 fu
to spoil, to rot, to decay; rotten
radical 130 ⾁ · 14 strokes

Other Chinese words for “tofu”

WordPinyinMeaning
白玉bái yùwhite jade; tofu (by analogy)

Related words

Other words that share a character with 豆腐.

WordPinyinMeaning
土豆tǔ dòupotato; (Tw) peanut (颗 (kē))
大豆dà dòusoybean
豆瓣dòu bàncotyledon of a bean or pea (i.e. either of the halves of a bean or pea); thick bean sauce (abbr. for 豆瓣酱 (dòu bàn jiàng))
黄豆 (黃豆)huáng dòusoybean
豆子dòu zibean; pea
腐败 (腐敗)fǔ bàicorruption; to corrupt
贪腐 (貪腐)tān fǔcorruption
腐蚀 (腐蝕)fǔ shícorrosion; to corrode (degrade chemically)

See also: Japanese symbol for “tofu”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.