The word "hamburger" is the Chinese name for the English word "hamburger", which contains both phonetic and phonetic elements, and is sometimes directly referred to as "hamburger". The original name Hamburger comes from the German city of Hamburg. In English, Hamburger means "from Hamburg", which can refer to the hamburger itself, or the patty inside made of ground beef or other ground beef. The name Hamburger originates from the northwestern German city of Hamburg, today Germany's busiest port, where, in the mid-19th century, the people who lived there liked to pound their steaks into shapes, a style of eating that may have been introduced by the large number of German immigrants at the time. The style of eating may have been introduced to the Americas by the large number of German immigrants at the time. In 1836, a dish named "Hamburg steak" appeared on American menus; a 1902 cookbook shows that Hamburg steak was close to today's concept of ground beef and onions mixed with peppers. peppers. By the late 20th century, Americans had refined the hamburg steak and sent it to fast-food restaurants, and that's how today's beloved hamburger came to be.

It's worth mentioning that because the hamburger is a kind of beef patty that is pounded to a pulp, people also use it as a metaphor for "a boxer who's been battered and bruised," and there is American slang for "make hamburger out of sb.", which means to "beat someone up, beat someone to a pulp. Make hamburger out of sb." in American slang.