Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick, sweet, pungent sauce used in Chinese cooking.
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- noun A
sauce made fromsoy ,garlic ,chili etc, used inChinese cooking
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- noun a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Cantonese hoi2 sin1, seafood, from Middle Chinese xaj´ sian (also the source of Mandarin hǎixiān) : Cantonese hoi2, sea, ocean (from Middle Chinese xaj´) + Cantonese sin1, fresh, delicious (from Middle Chinese sian, fresh, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sar; akin to Tibetan gsar).]
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