豆

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/豆

Glyph origin
– some kind of container. Borrowed phonetically for the plant name. Displaced Old Chinese.

Etymology
Derived from, ultimately from (STEDT).

"Soybean > bean" is possibly the same word as "round vessel"

Definitions

 * 1) pod-bearing plant or its seeds; bean; pea
 * 2) bean-shaped object
 * 3)  stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice
 * 1) bean-shaped object
 * 2)  stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice
 * 1)  stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice
 * 1)  stemmed shallow bowl on a round base, often with a lid and sometimes with handles, initially earthenware and used as a food container, later also made of wood or bronze and used to hold minced and pickled meats and vegetables and used in ritual sacrifice

Kanji

 * 1) bean, legume

Compounds

 * , : Japanese grosbeak
 * , : Japanese grosbeak
 * , : Japanese grosbeak

Etymology
→

From, in turn from.

Noun

 * 1) the pulses
 * 2) a bean
 * 3) a pea
 * 4) a soybean
 * 1) a soybean

Etymology
From.