seasoned vinegar; vinegar-based sauce
A mixture of vinegar with soy sauce, sugar, dashi, or other seasonings, used as a dressing or dipping sauce in Japanese cuisine.
I'm using seasoned vinegar for this dressed dish.
Seasoned vinegar is made by mixing vinegar with soy sauce and sugar.
Standard kanji spelling.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; common in everyday writing.
Variant kanji spelling using 合せ instead of 合わせ.
Compound of 合わせ (awase, 'mixing') + 酢 (zu, 'vinegar'). The kanji 酢 is read as ず due to rendaku.