汤 (tāng): soup
汤 (tāng) is a Chinese character meaning “soup.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 昜 (phonetic). It ranks #1607 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 汤 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- soup
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 汤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 汤圆noun | tāng yuán | boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汤姆proper-noun | tāng mǔ | Tom (name) |
| 泡汤verb | pào tāng | (coll.) to fizzle out |
| 赴汤蹈火phrase | fù tāng dǎo huǒ | lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom) |
| 汤普森noun | tāng pǔ sēn | (name) Thompson |
| 鸡汤noun | jī tāng | chicken stock |
| 汤匙noun | tāng chí | soup spoon |
| 肉汤noun | ròu tāng | meat soup |
| 浓汤noun | nóng tāng | thick soup |
| 落汤鸡noun | luò tāng jī | a person who looks drenched and bedraggled |
| 固若金汤phrase | gù ruò jīn tāng | (lit.) secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) |
| 金汤noun | jīn tāng | impregnable fortress (abbr. for 金城湯池|金城汤池) |
| 汤勺noun | tāng sháo | soup ladle |
| 汤加proper-noun | tāng jiā | Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom |
| 换汤不换药phrase | huàn tāng bù huàn yào | different broth but the same old medicine (idiom) |
| 面汤noun | miàn tāng | noodle soup |
汤 appears in 100 compound words: 41 as the first character, 45 as the last, and 14 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 汤 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (7)
to defy all difficulties and dangers; to fear and shun no difficulties or dangers
Showing 5 of 7 idioms containing 汤.
Example Sentences
广东人很喜欢喝汤，每餐饭前都要先喝一碗老火靓汤。
Guǎngdōng rén hěn xǐhuan hē tāng, měi cān fàn qián dōu yào xiān hē yì wǎn lǎohuǒ liàng tāng.
Cantonese people love to drink soup, and before every meal they must first have a bowl of slow-cooked soup.
落实单一录取系统仅换汤不换药 社青团促高教部统一入学制
luò shí dān yī lù qǔ xì tǒng jǐn huàn tāng bù huàn yào shè qīng tuán cù gāo jiào bù tǒng yī rù xué zhì
Implement a single admission system, only change the soup and not change the medicine The Social Youth League promotes the unified admission system of the Ministry of Higher Education
春天祛湿汤水合集|身体湿气重疲倦乏力精神差 中医推...
chūn tiān 祛 shī tāng shuǐ gě jí shēn tǐ shī qì chóng pí juàn fá lì jīng shén chā zhōng yī tuī . . .
Spring dampness removal soup collection|Body dampness, fatigue, fatigue, poor spirits, traditional Chinese medicine push...
天气》今变天转湿凉 228连假泡汤 雨最大时间曝
tiān qì jīn biàn tiān zhuǎn shī liáng lián jiǎ pāo tāng yǔ zuì dà shí jiān pù
Weather" Today's weather turns wet and cool, 228 consecutive holidays are in the hot spring, and the rain is exposed at the maximum time
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汤姆的教室在哪里？
Tāngmǔ de jiàoshì zài nǎlǐ?
Where is Tom's classroom?
汤姆今天需要留在家里吗？
Tāngmǔ jīntiān xūyào liú zài jiālǐ ma?
Does Tom need to stay home today?
你觉得汤姆有多大？
Nǐ juéde Tāngmǔ yǒu duōdà?
How old do you think Tom is?
你认为汤姆的腰围是多少？
Nǐ rènwéi Tāngmǔ de yāowéi shì duōshao?
What do you think Tom's waist size is?
你和汤姆之间发生了什么？
Nǐ hé Tāngmǔ zhījiān fāshēng le shénme?
What happened between you and Tom?
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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