자장면

jajangmyeon · TOPIK 1

jajangmyeon (black bean noodles)

🍜 From Chinese 炸酱面 zhajiangmian: fried sauce + noodles

자장 (jajang) is the Korean reading of Chinese 炸酱, fried sauce, and 면 (myeon) means noodles, the same 면 as in 라면 (ramyeon) and 냉면 (naengmyeon). So the word splits as jajang + myeon: fried-sauce noodles.

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