辣豆酱辣豆醬 in English

Character breakdown

• 辣 là hot (spicy)
• 豆 dòu legume
• 酱醬 jiàng thick paste of fermented soybean

How it used to be written

豆

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

酱

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

• 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).