心急吃不了热豆腐

hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

anxious / impatient

urgent / pressing / rapid / hurried / worried / to make (sb) anxious

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)

unable to / without end

(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth) / (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly

(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly

(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly

unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]

to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent

variant of 豆[dou4]

bean / pea / CL:棵[ke1],粒[li4] / sacrificial vessel

tofu / bean curd

decay / rotten