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酱油

jiàng yóu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 醬油

酱油 (jiàng yóu) means "soy sauce". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 酱油 means

1. soy sauce

The characters in 酱油

• 酱jiàngthick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste
• 油yóuoil; fat; grease

Example sentences

• 混合米、蛋跟酱油。
  Hùnhé mǐ, dàn gēn jiàngyóu.
  Mix the rice and eggs with soy sauce.
• 把米饭和鸡蛋及酱油混一下。
  Bǎ mǐfàn hé jīdàn jí jiàngyóu hùn yīxià.
  Mix the rice, egg and soy sauce.
• 把米饭和鸡蛋还有酱油拌在了一起。
  Bǎ mǐfàn hé jīdàn háiyǒu jiàngyóu bàn zài le yīqǐ.
  Mix the rice and eggs with soy sauce.

Words starting with 酱油

• 酱油膏jiàng yóu gāothickened soy sauce

Words containing 酱油

• 打酱油dǎ jiàng yóuto buy soy sauce; it's none of my business ("I’m just here to buy some soy sauce")
• 辣酱油là jiàng yóuWorcestershire sauce

Where 酱油 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food, Cooking & Cuisine (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiàng yóu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.