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.
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Warring States script 戰國.齊 -
Clerical script - See all 14 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他的衬衫被酱汁弄脏了。
His shirt was stained with sauce.
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加不加酱?
More paste?
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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.
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把米饭和鸡蛋及酱油混一下。
Mix the rice and eggs with soy sauce.
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蛋黄酱是一种乐器吗?
Is mayonnaise an instrument?