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Shallot
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Liat Portal for Foodie Disorder - Shallot onion
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HaJunkiyada
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红葱头

紅蔥頭
hóngcōngtóu
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 shallot
  2. 2 red shallot

About the ingredient

蔬菜 Vegetables

Small bulbs with purple-red skin and pale purple-white flesh, strongly fragrant but only mildly sharp. Chopped and fried in oil until crisp, they top braised pork rice; they also go into stir-fries and soups.

Also called  干葱、 火葱、 红葱、 分葱

Examples

HSK 6
Hóngcōngtóu bǐ yángcōng xiǎo de duō.
Shallots are much smaller than onions.
HSK 7-9
把红葱头切片炸脆,就是油葱酥。
Bǎ hóngcōngtóu qiēpiàn zhácuì, jiùshì yóucōngsū.
Slice shallots and fry them until crisp, and you have fried shallots.

Tips

usage
Also sold as 干葱 or 火葱. 葱头 on its own usually means onion, 洋葱, and 葱 is the scallion.

Stroke Order

红 hóng
葱 cōng
头 tóu