湯 (tāng)
Soup; hot water.
How 湯 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 湯
- Simplified
- 汤
湯 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- tāng
- surname Tang
- shāng
- rushing current
Common words using 湯
- 湯圓 tāngyuán
- boiled balls of glutinous rice flour, eaten during the Lantern festival
- 泡湯 pàotāng
- to dawdle; to go slow deliberately; to fizzle out
- 清湯 qīngtāng
- broth; clear soup; consommé
- 湯勺 tāngsháo
- soup ladle
- 湯包 tāngbāo
- steamed dumpling
- 湯匙 tāngchí
- soup spoon; tablespoon; CL:把[ba3]
- 湯汁 tāngzhī
- soup; broth
- 濃湯 nóngtāng
- thick soup; puree
- 肉湯 ròutāng
- meat soup; broth
- 落湯雞 luòtāngjī
- a person who looks drenched and bedraggled; like a drowned rat; deep distress
- 雞湯 jītāng
- chicken stock
- 高湯 gāotāng
- clear soup; soup stock
湯 in a sentence
天氣冷的時候，喝一碗熱湯很舒服。
Tiānqì lěng de shíhòu, hē yìwǎn rètāng hěn shūfú.
“When the weather is cold, drinking a bowl of hot soup is very comforting.”
How common is 湯?
湯 is the 1,616th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.3% of all running text.
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