鹹菜燒豆腐

Chinese

		salted vegetable; pickle; pickled mustard greens	to burn; to cook; to stew to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; fever	tofu; bean curd; any food with tofu-like physical quality
trad. (鹹菜燒豆腐)		鹹菜	燒	豆腐
simp. (咸菜烧豆腐)		咸菜	烧	豆腐

Etymology

For the idiom, it is short for 鹹菜燒豆腐，有鹽在先／咸菜烧豆腐，有盐在先 (“salted vegetables and tofu, have the salted one first”), a wordplay on 有言在先 (yǒuyán zàixiān).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiáncài shāo dòufu, xiáncài shāo dòufǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠㄉㄡˋ ˙ㄈㄨ, ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠㄉㄡˋ ㄈㄨˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiáncài shāo dòufu
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠㄉㄡˋ ˙ㄈㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siáncài shao dòufů
  - Wade–Giles: hsien²-tsʻai⁴ shao¹ tou⁴-fu⁵
  - Yale: syán-tsài shāu dòu-fu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyantsay shau dow.fu
  - Palladius: сяньцай шао доуфу (sjanʹcaj šao doufu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ toʊ̯⁵¹ fu¹/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiáncài shāo dòufǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠㄉㄡˋ ㄈㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siáncài shao dòufǔ
  - Wade–Giles: hsien²-tsʻai⁴ shao¹ tou⁴-fu³
  - Yale: syán-tsài shāu dòu-fǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyantsay shau dowfuu
  - Palladius: сяньцай шао доуфу (sjanʹcaj šao doufu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ toʊ̯⁵¹ fu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

鹹菜燒豆腐

salted vegetables and tofu (dish)

Idiom

鹹菜燒豆腐

(xiehouyu) to make it clear beforehand; to forewarn

Synonyms

有言在先 (yǒuyán zàixiān)
踏話頭／踏话头

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