Onion in Chinese (Mandarin): 洋葱 (yángcōng)
洋葱
yángcōng
onion
- Simplified
- 洋葱
- Traditional
- 洋蔥
- Pinyin
- yángcōng
- Typed as
- yangcong
Use it in a sentence
洋葱让人流眼泪。
洋蔥讓人流眼淚。
Onions make people cry.
The characters in 洋葱
洋
Ocean; also foreign. 氵 (water) is on the left.
9 strokes
葱 / 蔥
Green onion. 艹 (grass) is on top.
12 strokes
洋葱 is a "foreign green onion": in old words, 洋 marks something that came from overseas.
More examples with 洋葱
切洋葱会流眼泪。
切洋蔥會流眼淚。
Qiē yángcōng huì liú yǎnlèi.
Cutting onions makes you cry.
洋葱是圆的。
洋蔥是圓的。
Yángcōng shì yuán de.
Onions are round.
How to write 洋葱 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
洋 9 strokes
葱 12 strokes
In Traditional characters:
蔥 15 strokes
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