fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
trad. 魚生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安
Also written 魚生火，肉生痰，青菜豆腐保平安【yú shēng huǒ , ròu shēng tán , qīng cài dòu fu bǎo píng ān】
Characters in this word
12鱼
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surname Yu
- Pinyin
- Yú
- Traditional
- 魚
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1545 of 2500
生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
火
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surname Huo
- Pinyin
- Huǒ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 2136 of 2500
肉
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meat, flesh, pulp (of a fruit), (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy, (of a person) flabby, irresolute, Kangxi radical 130
- Pinyin
- ròu
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1834 of 2500
痰
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phlegm, spittle
- Pinyin
- tán
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 37358 of 2500
青
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short name for Qinghai 青海[Qing1 hai3]
- Pinyin
- Qīng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 12152 of 2500
菜
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vegetable; greens (CL:棵[ke1]), dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2]), (of one's skills etc) weak; poor, (coll.) (one's) type
- Pinyin
- cài
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2343 of 2500
豆
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legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]) (variant of 豆[dou4])
- Pinyin
- dòu
- Traditional
- 荳
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 11609 of 2500
腐
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decay, rotten
- Pinyin
- fǔ
- Strokes
- 14
保
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Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])
- Pinyin
- Bǎo
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 8049 of 2500
平
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surname Ping
- Pinyin
- Píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 9521 of 2500
安
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surname An
- Pinyin
- Ān
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1756 of 2500