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Chinese symbol for “sauce”

酱料
jiàng liào
Traditional: 醬料
sauce

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sauce is 酱料 (jiàng liào), defined as: sauce.

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Characters and stroke order

酱 jiàng
sauce, paste, jam
radical 164 ⾣ · 13 strokes
料 liào
ingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess
radical 68 ⽃ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “sauce”

WordPinyinMeaning
沙司shā sīsauce (loanword)
调味汁 (調味汁)tiáo wèi zhīdressing; sauce

Related words

Other words that share a character with 酱料.

WordPinyinMeaning
酱油 (醬油)jiàng yóusoy sauce
果酱 (果醬)guǒ jiàngjam
番茄酱 (番茄醬)fān qié jiàngketchup; tomato sauce
鱼子酱 (魚子醬)yú zǐ jiàngcaviar
肉酱 (肉醬)ròu jiàngminced meat sauce; (fig.) mincemeat
辣椒酱 (辣椒醬)là jiāo jiàngred pepper paste; chili sauce
资料 (資料)zī liàomaterial; resources
材料cái liào(raw) material; data

See also: Japanese symbol for “sauce”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.