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tofu

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • tō'fū
  • General-American: /ˈtoʊfu/
  • /ˈtəʊfuː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • South-Asia: /t̪o.fu/
  • South-Asia: /ʈo.fu/ spelling pronunciation
  • CMU ARPABET: T OW1 F UW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bean curd, bean cake, soycheese, dubu, doufu

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as _□ or 𐕪)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, media, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, publishing, sciences, typography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Initialism of trust on first use, a type of network software security model where a client requests an identification code from a remote host when establishing the first connection.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: TUFU

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Initialism of top of funnel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Topics: business, marketing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bean curd

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: curd

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 豆(とう)腐(ふ) (tōfu), from Middle Chinese 豆腐 (duwH bju^X, “curdled bean”). Doublet of dubu and doufu.

Across languages

Translations

100 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: tahoe — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Arabic: تُوفُو (tūfū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Arabic: تُوفُو (tofū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Arabic: توفو (tōfu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Armenian: տոֆու (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Azerbaijani: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Belarusian: то́фу (tófu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Bouyei: duehfuh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Bouyei: dueh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Bulgarian: то́фу (tófu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Burmese: တိုဟူး (tuihu:) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Catalan: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Chinese Cantonese: 豆腐 (dau6 fu6) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 豆腐 (dâu-hô) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Hakka Chinese: 豆腐 (theu-fu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Chinese: 豆腐 (zh-min-nan) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豆腐 (dòufu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Wu Chinese: 豆腐 — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Czech: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Dutch: sojakaas — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Dutch: tahoe — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Dutch: tofoe — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Esperanto: tofuo — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Esperanto: toŭfuo — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Esperanto: sojkazeo — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Finnish: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • French: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • French: tofou — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Galician: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Georgian: ტოფუ (ṭopu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • German: Tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • German: Bohnenquark — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Greek: τόφου (tófou) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Gujarati: ટોફુ (ṭophu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Hebrew: טוֹפוּ (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Hindi: टोफ़ू (ṭofū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Hungarian: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Icelandic: tófú — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Indonesian: tahu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Indonesian: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Irish: tófú — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Italian: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Japanese: 豆腐 (tōfu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Jeju: 두부 (dubu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Jeju: 두푸 (dupu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Kazakh: тофу (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Kazakh: د‬ۇ‬ف‬ۇ (dufu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Khmer: តៅហ៊ូ (tawhuu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Korean: 두부 (dubu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Kyrgyz: тофу (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Lao: ເຕົາຮູ້ (tao hū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Latin: cāseus soiae — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • : ᦷᦏᧈᦝᦴ (ṫho1fuu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Macedonian: то́фу (tófu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Malay: tauhu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Malay: taufu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᡶᡠ (defu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Marathi: टोफू (ṭophū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Central Melanau: tauhu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Mongolian: дүпү (düpü) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠧᠦᠹᠦ᠋ (dēüfü) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Norwegian: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Norwegian: bønne-ost — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Nuosu: ꄔꃛ (dut fup) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Okinawan: 豆腐 (dūfu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Persian: توفو (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Polish: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Portuguese: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Romanian: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Russian: то́фу (tófu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Russian: со́евый тво́ро́г (sójevyj tvóróg) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Serbo-Croatian: то̏фу — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȍfu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Slovak: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Spanish: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Sundanese: ᮒᮠᮥ (tahu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Swedish: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Tagalog: tokwa — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Tajik: тофу (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Tamil: டோஃபூ (ṭōfū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Thai: เต้าหู้ (dtâo-hûu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Tibetan: ཏོའོ་ཕུ (to'o phu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Northern Tujia: texheix — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Turkish: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Turkmen: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Ukrainian: то́фу (tófu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Urdu: ٹوفو (ṭofū) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Uyghur: دۇفۇ (dufu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Uyghur: тофу (tofu) — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Uzbek: tofu — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Vietnamese: đậu phụ — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Vietnamese: tàu hủ — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Vietnamese: đậu khuôn — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Vietnamese: đậu hủ — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Welsh: toffw — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Zhuang: daxfouh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Zhuang: daeuhfouh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Zhuang: daeuhfuh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Zhuang: doxfuh — protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豆腐塊 /豆腐块 (dòufǔkuài) — computing, typography: box or rectangle displayed in place of a character not supported