A sauce used for dipping, especially for noodles like soba or udon, or for tempura.
The dipping sauce for zaru soba is seasoned a bit strongly.
When eating tempura, adding grated daikon to the dipping sauce makes it refreshing.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling.
Alternate spelling using the okurigana 付け.
Abbreviated kanji spelling; less common.
Compound of つけ (continuative form of つける 'to dip') + 汁 (しる 'soup, juice'). The reading つけじる is standard; つけしる is a less common variant.