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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
mud / clay / paste / pulp
HSK 6
cement / CL:
HSK 6
to fall flat on one's face
silt / sludge / ooze
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泥* | 泥* | *泥
restrained
mud / mire
clay
thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste
to be a stickler for formalities / to rigidly adhere to / to cling to / constrained / ill at ease
red ink paste used for seal
(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered
jujube paste
as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart
dirty snow / slush / abbr. for 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪
yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine)
plasticine / modeling clay
sealing clay / lute
mashed potato
playdough
Portland cement
fruit puree; fruit pulp
white cement
mashed potato
reinforced concrete
to remove mud / desliming (in coal production)
mashed potato
when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
reinforced concrete
to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
mud / sludge
plaster / mortar
apple sauce
soft mud / silt / sludge / ooze (geology)
hummus


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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