Skip to main content
soy

soy

42 1.0
A thin dark sauce from fermented beans used to add salty flavor to food
  • noun
  • /sɔɪ/
  • US
translation icon : salsa de soja
  • Sook-Hee pours a dish of soy sauce in front of Kathryn.
  • soy sauce

So that's kind of like my take on the soy sauce.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Sushi set A, extra soy sauce.

  • - We can have rice with soy sauce.

  • That looks like it has soy sauce on it right there?

  • Do you want to eat this with soy sauce?

  • A little soy sauce, some duck sauce.

  • Just now I saw Big Hat in town buying vinegar and soy sauce.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • On Jeju, pork is kept in a pot filled with soy sauce to preserve it for relatively short periods.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Similarly, pieces of chicken leg are stewed with canned peas and soy sauce.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Green beans, cream of mushroom soup, crispy onions, caramel, soy sauce and raw onions.

  • In a medium bowl, combine ribs with soy sauce, ginger, garlic, chiles, and star anise.

Synonyms

soy sauce
vssoy
  • US
29 1.0

A dark salty liquid used to add flavor to food

is a thin dark cooking sauce that does not stress saltiness
tamari
vssoy
2 6.6

A dark, rich soy sauce used in Japanese cooking that is often wheat-free

is the usual thin East Asian sauce not especially rich or wheat free
shoyu
vssoy
1 5.5

A Japanese soy sauce used to season food

is the broader East Asian thin sauce not limited to Japan

Compounds

29 1.0

A dark salty liquid used to add flavor to food

11 1.9

Milk made from soybeans used instead of regular milk

1 2.5

A fine powder made from ground soybeans used as an ingredient in baking

green soy
  • Indian
3.5

A seed from the mung bean plant used for food

soy boy
  • Slur
9.9

An insulting word for a man seen as weak or not masculine, often used online

How Sweet

teriyaki
6 4.4
soy
  • US
42 1.0

Surface Forms

soy singular
soys plural

Etymology

Soy for the dark sauce comes from Japanese shoyu, which means 'seasoning oil' and was brought into European languages by early traders; English then shortened it to 'soy'. That's why soy sauce is the dark, salty sauce made from fermented soybeans.