A sauce used for dipping food, especially in Japanese cuisine such as shabu-shabu, cold noodles, or gyoza. Often soy-sauce-based with added flavors.
I made a dipping sauce for shabu-shabu.
This dipping sauce goes well with gyoza.
Standard kanji-katakana spelling; 漬け means 'soaking/pickling' and タレ is 'sauce'.
All-hiragana variant of the second part; less common but still seen.
Uses 付ける (attach/apply) instead of 漬ける (soak); considered irregular kanji usage but encountered in practice.
Uses 浸ける (immerse/soak); a less common kanji choice.
Compound of 漬け (tsuke, 'soaking', from 漬ける tsukeru 'to soak/pickle') and タレ (tare, 'sauce'). The kanji 漬け indicates the sauce is for dipping (soaking) food.