炸酱面 (zhà jiàng miàn) — zhajiang noodles (noodles topped with fried bea… | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

zhajiang noodles (noodles topped with fried bean sauce)

Measure word · 碗

Examples

炸酱面。
Wǒ diǎn le yì wǎn zhà jiàng miàn.
I ordered a bowl of zhajiang noodles.
炸酱面。
Zhè jiā diàn de zhà jiàng miàn wèi dào hěn hǎo.
The zhajiang noodles at this restaurant taste great.
炸酱面？
Nǐ chī guò lǎo běi jīng zhà jiàng miàn ma?
Have you ever eaten old Beijing-style zhajiang noodles?

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

炸酱fried bean sauce

炸zhàfry酱jiàngsauce/paste

偏正Modifier + head

面miànnoodles

炸酱 is fried bean sauce and 面 is noodles, so the dish is noodles served with that sauce.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 醬; 酱 is its simplified writing.

將酉醬

Meaning part形符xíngfú

酉酉yǒudrink

Sound part声符shēngfú

將

將jiāng醬jiàng

Same sound today

The traditional form 醬 pairs 將, which suggests the sound, with 酉, a drink; the simplified 酱 is a later abbreviation.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

面 originally drew a man’s face, with one eye exaggerated; the horizontal stroke was added later.

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