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hoisin sauce

hoisin sauce noun: a thick, pungent, dark, sweet and salty sauce made from soy, garlic and chili, used in Chinese cooking.

Noun

hoisin sauce (countable and uncountable, plural hoisin sauces)

  1. A thick, pungent, dark, sweet and salty sauce made from soy, garlic and chili, used in Chinese cooking.

hoisin sauce meaning in Thai and Vietnamese

hoisin sauce in Thai

sauce used in Chinese cooking
ซอสฮอยซิน

hoisin sauce in Vietnamese

sauce used in Chinese cooking
tương đen, tương ngọt

Forms of hoisin sauce

pluralhoisin sauces

Origin of hoisin sauce

Partial calque from Cantonese 海鮮醬／海鲜酱 (hoi2 sin1 zoeng3, literally “seafood sauce, sauce for seafood”).

Questions about hoisin sauce

What does hoisin sauce mean?
Hoisin sauce means a thick, pungent, dark, sweet and salty sauce made from soy, garlic and chili, used in Chinese cooking.
What is hoisin sauce in Thai?
Hoisin sauce in Thai is ซอสฮอยซิน. See Hoisin sauce meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is hoisin sauce?
Hoisin sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of hoisin sauce?
The plural of hoisin sauce is hoisin sauces.

Words near hoisin sauce in the dictionary

  1. hoise
  2. hoised
  3. hoises
  4. hoish
  5. hoisin
  6. hoisin sauce
  7. hoisin sauces
  8. hoising
  9. Hoisington
  10. Hoisingtons
  11. hoism

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