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凉拌 (liáng bàn) — to dress cold; to prepare a cold dish with sauce (a cooking method)

Definition

A Chinese cooking method: tossing cold, usually blanched or raw vegetables (or other ingredients) in sauce, with no further cooking. Often appears as 凉拌X (e.g. 凉拌黄瓜).

verb
to dress coldto prepare a cold dish with sauce (a cooking method)

Examples

  • 凉拌。
    Zhè dào liáng bàn huáng guā hěn hǎo chī.
    This cold dressed cucumber dish is very tasty.
  • 凉拌。
    Xià tiān wǒ xǐ huan liáng bàn yì xiē shū cài chī.
    In summer I like to dress some vegetables cold and eat them.
  • 凉拌？
    Nǐ liáng bàn de shí hou fàng le duō shǎo cù?
    How much vinegar did you put in when you dressed it cold?

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.

凉liángcold
拌bànmix/dress

凉 means cold and 拌 means mix or dress, giving cold-dressed food.

Characters in this word

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 涼; 凉 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
氵Written in full as水shuǐwater
Sound part声符shēngfú
京
京jīng涼liáng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 涼 combines 氵 (water) with 京, which gives the sound; the simplified 凉 is a later abbreviation.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Appears in
Cooking

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