醬
jiàng HSK6

any jam-like or paste-like food

酱 醬 jiàng
sauce noun
thick paste or sauce made from fermented soybeans, flour, or other ingredients

让酱汁完全冷却。

ràng jiàng zhī wán​quán lěng​què.

Let the sauce cool completely.

jam noun
any food that has been mashed or processed into a thick, paste-like consistency, such as fruit jam or nut butter

我真的喜欢草莓酱，但它有点过甜。

wǒ zhēn​de xǐ​huan cǎo​méi jiàng, dàn tā yǒu​diǎn guò tián.

I do like strawberry jam, but it's a bit too sweet.

to pickle
to pickle, marinate, or cook food in soy sauce or fermented soy paste

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,100th most common 8.62 per million
Movie subtitles
1,661st most common 33.9 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
19.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
酱
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+91AC

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)