汤
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soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 水 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 湯
- Common rank
- #774
- Unicode
- U+6C64
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 汤 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 昜 sound ()
Components 氵 昜
How to remember it
soup · Heisig RSH #527
水 water + piglets
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 汤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汤加里罗 | Tongariro, volcanic area on North Island, New Zealand | |
| 小汤山 | Xiaotangshan town in Beijing municipality | |
| 汤力水 | tonic water | |
| 金汤力 | (loanword) gin and tonic | |
| 汤原县 | Tangyuan, a county in Jiamusi City 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 四物汤 | four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
| 肉汤面 | noodles in meat soup | |
| 心灵鸡汤 | (often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese transla… | |
| 汤姆·克兰西 | Tom Clancy (1947-2013), US author | |
| 头汤 | first bouillon, a broth made with ingredients that may later be reboiled to make a second … | |
| 汤加群岛 | Tonga | |
| 白汤 | clear soup; white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤[nai3 tang1]; decoction of chrysanthemum, liquor… | |
| 金汤 | impregnable fortress (abbr. for 金城湯池|金城汤池[jin1 cheng2 tang1 chi2]) | |
| 上汤 | (regional) stock (used in Chinese cooking) | |
| 高汤 | clear soup; soup stock | |
| 汤面 | noodles in soup | |
| 面汤 | noodle soup; noodles in soup; noodle broth | |
| 蛋花汤 | clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable; eggdrop soup | |
| 金城汤池 | impregnable fortress | |
| 汤阴县 | Tangyin, a county in Anyang City 安陽市|安阳市[An1 yang2 Shi4], Henan |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 昜 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昜 sound part | bright, glorious; to expand, to open up | |
| 场 | field, open space; market, square; stage | |
| 扬 | to flutter, to wave; to hoist, to raise; to praise | |
| 肠 | intestines; emotions; sausage | |
| 畅 | freely, smoothly; unrestrained | |
| 殇 | to die young; national mourning | |
| 疡 | sore, ulcer; infection | |
| 觞 | wine cup; to propose a toast; feast | |
| 炀 | to scorch, to roast, to melt | |
| 饧 | syrup, molasses, malt sugar; sticky |