IDENTITY
汤tāngsoup
HSK 2Top 1050
CORE MEANING
soup
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.soupHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵𠃓
- water
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
喝汤hē tāngto drink soup
汤圆tāngyuánglutinous rice balls
Graded examples
饭前先喝汤。Fàn qián xiān hē tāng.HSK3
Drink soup before the meal.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 烫
LEARNING
Memory aid
Hot water (氵) with the rising steam of 湯 — soup. (Simplified from 湯.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1050
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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