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HK SYP Best of Best Vegetable Peking Welsh onion Allium Aug-2012
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Genmewcaugsa
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Photo credit

Photo
Green onions sold in supermarkets
By
Fumikas Sagisavas
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CC0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

大葱

大蔥
dàcōng
noun #48,746

Measure Word

一根大葱 gēn

Meanings

  1. 1 Welsh onion; long green onion; large scallion (Allium fistulosum)
  2. 2 leek

About the ingredient

蔬菜 Vegetables

Thick, long stalks with a large white part and short green tops; the white part has the strongest flavour. Shredded for Peking duck, stir-fried with beef, mixed into meat fillings, and in Shandong eaten raw rolled in a thin pancake.

Examples

HSK 3
山东的大葱特别有名。
Shāndōng de dàcōng tèbié yǒumíng.
Shandong scallions are particularly famous.
HSK 3
包饺子要放点大葱。
Bāo jiǎozi yào fàng diǎn dàcōng.
You need to add some scallion when making dumplings.

Tips

culture
山东大葱 are legendary, often over a meter long. A classic Shandong way to eat them is raw, dipped in soy paste and wrapped in a pancake (煎饼卷大葱).

Stroke Order

大 dà
葱 cōng