vinegar pickling; vinegar pickles
Refers both to the process of pickling in vinegar and to the resulting pickled food. Common in Japanese cuisine for vegetables, fish, etc.
I made vinegar-pickled cucumbers.
この魚の酢漬けはさっぱりしていて美味しい。
These vinegar-pickled fish are light and delicious.
Standard kanji spelling.
Abbreviated spelling, common in product labels and recipes.
Search-only form using づ instead of 漬.
Compound of 酢 (su, 'vinegar') + 漬け (zuke, 'pickling'), from the verb 漬ける (tsukeru, 'to soak, pickle').