鹹菜燒豆腐

Chinese

		salted vegetable; pickle	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 ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ ˙ㄈㄨ, ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ ㄈㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiáncài shāo dòufu
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ ˙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 ㄕㄠ ㄉㄡˋ 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

1. salted vegetables and tofu (dish)

Idiom

鹹菜燒豆腐

1. (xiehouyu) to make it clear beforehand; to forewarn

Synonyms

• 有言在先 (yǒuyán zàixiān)
• 踏話頭／踏话头