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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *湯* | 湯* | *湯
soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
HSK 3
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  *稀* | 稀* | *稀
sparse; scattered / rare; uncommon / diluted; thin; watery / (bound form) sth liquid or of thin consistency (as in 綠豆稀|绿豆稀 "sweet mung bean soup") / (bound form) totally; extremely (used with negative attributes, as in 稀糟 "utterly ruined")
HSK 7-9
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  *涮* | 涮* | *涮
to rinse / to trick / to fool sb / to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)
HSK 7-9
wonton; Chinese ravioli (served in soup) / Taiwan pr. [hun2dun5]
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  *膷* | 膷* | *膷
hashed beef / soup
duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
meat soup / broth
broth / clear soup / consommé
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  *羹* | 羹* | *羹
thick soup
daily / (soup etc) of the day
to prepare a soup
clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable / eggdrop soup
syrup / sweetened water / tong sui (sweet soup)
noodles in soup
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
soup spoon / tablespoon / CL:
food relief center / soup kitchen
naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
bak-kut-teh or pork ribs soup, popular in Malaysia and Singapore
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
spoon; (esp.) Chinese soup spoon (often ceramic)
borscht, a traditional beetroot soup
soup bowl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *臐* | 臐* | *臐
lamb soup
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糨* | 糨* | *糨
(of soup, paste etc) thick
food relief center / soup kitchen
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
(often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
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  *鉶* | 鉶* | *鉶
soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / old variant of
to simmer / soup made by simmering for a long time
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
dashi (soup stock used in Japanese cuisine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese)
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  *歠* | 歠* | *歠
(literary) to drink / to sip / gruel / soup
chicken stock / chicken soup / (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
(loanword) tom yum goong (Thai soup)
to ladle out soup
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
noodles in meat soup
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
Aerodramus, genus of birds that use echolocation, a subset of the Collocaliini tribe (swiflets), two of whose species – Aerodramus fuciphagus and Aerodramus maximus – build nests harvested to make bird's nest soup
soup; broth
kway chap (Teochew noodle soup)
(loanword) tom yum (Thai soup)
raw materials for making soup / packaged soup mix
mushroom soup
cabbage, rice and tofu soup
soup of the day
steamed soup dumpling
Cantonese seafood soup
thick soup / puree
beef noodle soup
lit. a cup of soup / fig. to get part of the profits / one's share of the action
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
samgyetang, popular Korean chicken soup with ginseng, spices etc
miso soup
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
hand-shredded fish soup, a speciality of Shunde 順德|顺德
pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia
meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine)
ching bo leung, an icy, sweet dessert soup
soup ladle
soup plate
soup dishes (on menu)
dough-drop soup (made by dropping small, irregular lumps of dough into the simmering broth)
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
soup
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
shark-fin soup
clear soup / soup stock
shark fin soup
hot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls)


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