in English

jiàng noun, verb HSK6
thick paste of fermented soybean / marinated in soy paste / paste / jam

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 醬, the traditional character: 酱 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

  • 他的衬衫被酱汁弄脏了。

    His shirt was stained with sauce.

  • 加不加酱?

    More paste?

  • 吃午饭的时候,一坨芥末酱滴下来弄脏了我的领带。

    A drop of mustard fell and stained my tie during lunch.

  • 把米饭和鸡蛋及酱油混一下。

    Mix the rice and eggs with soy sauce.

  • 蛋黄酱是一种乐器吗?

    Is mayonnaise an instrument?

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