酱
jiàng HSK6

any jam-like or paste-like food

酱 (醬) jiàng
jam noun
sweet preserve made from fruit and sugar

他在吐司上涂了一层厚厚的酱，吃得津津有味。

tā zài tǔ​sī shàng tú le yī céng hòu hòu de jiàng, chī de jīn​jīn​yǒu​wèi.

He spread a thick layer of jam on the toast and ate it with relish.

marinated noun
prepared or simmered in soy sauce or fermented paste

这些菜蔬已经酱好了，吃起来咸甜适口。

zhè​xiē cài​shū yǐ​jīng jiàng hǎo le, chī qi​lai xián​tián shì​kǒu.

These vegetables have been pickled in soy sauce and taste pleasantly salty and sweet.

paste noun
thick savory paste made from fermented soybeans or other ingredients used as a condiment

他喜欢在吃炸豆腐的时候蘸一点酱。

tā xǐ​huan zài chī zhà​dòu​fu de shí​hou zhàn yī​diǎn jiàng.

He likes to dip fried tofu in some sauce.

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 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
醬
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+9171

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