HSK 4 · Food

汤 tāng “soup” in Chinese

Traditional 湯

What 汤 means

  1. soup
  2. hot or boiling water
  3. decoction of medicinal herbs
  4. water in which sth has been boiled

How to say 汤

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale汤tāng1st tone, high and level

汤 in a sentence

  1. 我喜欢有很多蔬菜的汤。

    Wǒ xǐhuan yǒu hěn duō shūcài de tāng.

    I like soups with lots of vegetables.

    Sentence #2887887 from Tatoeba

  2. 汤太烫了。

    Tāng tài tàng le.

    The soup is too hot.

    Sentence #8831896 from Tatoeba

  3. 趁热喝你的汤。

    Chènrè hē nǐ de tāng.

    Have your soup while it’s hot.

    Sentence #334689 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 汤 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 汤 (tāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
汤tāngsoup
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 昜bright · yángSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 昜 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tāng.

How to write 汤

汤 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

汤 (tāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 汤 (tāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 汤

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FAQs

汤 (tāng) means “soup” or “hot or boiling water”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it tāng: tāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 汤 is written 湯. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 汤 from the suggestions. Typing tang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
汤 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.