tempura dipping sauce
A thin, savory sauce typically made from dashi, soy sauce, and mirin, served with tempura. Common in Japanese cuisine.
天ぷらを天つゆにつけて食べる。
Dip the tempura in the tempura dipping sauce and eat it.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling.
Alternate kanji spelling using 汁; less common than 天つゆ.
Compound of 天 (ten, abbreviation of 天ぷら 'tempura') and つゆ (tsuyu, 'dipping sauce').