in English

cōng noun
scallion / green onion

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 蔥, the traditional character: 葱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 我爱洋葱!

    I love onions!

  • 洋葱比土豆煮得更快些。

    Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.

  • 洋葱比马铃薯快熟。

    Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.

  • 牛群在鬱鬱葱葱的草地上缓缓移动著。

    The cows were moving very slowly through the long, green grass.

  • 这个汤里有胡萝卜、洋葱、欧芹、芹菜和土豆。

    In this soup there are carrots, onions, parsley, celery and potatoes.

  • 除了洋葱我什么都可以吃。

    I can eat anything but onions.

All example sentences with 葱

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