black bean sauce

noun

An Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans.

OriginChinese 豆豉醬 /豆豉酱 →
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Meanings

nounblack bean sauce (countable and uncountable, plural black bean sauces)

plural black bean sauces · alternative black-bean sauce

  1. countableuncountableAn Asian sauce made with fermented and salted black soybeans.

Origin

  1. Chinese豆豉醬 /豆豉酱“black bean sauce”
  2. Englishblack bean sauce

Calque of Chinese 豆豉醬 /豆豉酱 (dòuchǐjiàng, “black bean sauce”)

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