also: しおだれ · しおタレ · しおたれ
salt-based sauce; salty dipping sauce
A sauce made with salt as the primary seasoning, often used for grilled meats, yakiniku, or as a dipping sauce.
Salty sauce goes well with yakitori.
The salt-based sauce at this restaurant is light and delicious.
Common mixed kanji-katakana spelling for this sauce.
Hiragana variant of タレ; equally common in everyday writing.
Full katakana spelling for タレ; seen in menus and product labels.
Full hiragana spelling; less common but readable.
Ateji spelling using 垂れ; rarely used and may be considered non-standard.
Compound of 塩 (shio, 'salt') and タレ (tare, 'sauce'). The word タレ is derived from the verb 垂れる (tareru, 'to drip, to hang down'), referring to sauce that drips or is poured over food.