葱蔥 in English

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.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

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