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  *湯* | 湯* | *湯
soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
HSK 3
Cantonese seafood soup
pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia
lit. a cup of soup / fig. to get part of the profits / one's share of the action
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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
noodles mixed with a sauce and served with toppings (not in a soup) / (dialect) flour
soup of the day
daily / (soup etc) of the day
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
soup; broth
spoon; (esp.) Chinese soup spoon (often ceramic)
beef noodle soup
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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
soup ladle
steamed soup dumpling
(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")
soup dishes (on menu)
noodles in meat soup
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
shark fin soup
(loanword) tom yum goong (Thai soup)
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
to ladle out 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)
cabbage, rice and tofu soup
meat soup / broth
clear soup / soup stock
miso soup
noodles in soup
thick soup / puree
to prepare a soup
naengmyeon (Korean dish based on cold noodles in soup)
dashi (soup stock used in Japanese cuisine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese)
hand-shredded fish soup, a speciality of Shunde 順德|顺德
food relief center / soup kitchen
soup plate
samgyetang, popular Korean chicken soup with ginseng, spices etc
raw materials for making soup / packaged soup mix
wonton; Chinese ravioli (served in soup) / Taiwan pr. [hun2dun5]
soup
clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable / eggdrop soup
duck's blood and beef tripe in spicy soup
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
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
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
to simmer / soup made by simmering for a long time
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  *臐* | 臐* | *臐
lamb soup
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
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  *歠* | 歠* | *歠
(literary) to drink / to sip / gruel / soup
soup bowl
syrup / sweetened water / tong sui (sweet soup)
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
hot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls)
broth / clear soup / consommé
ching bo leung, an icy, sweet dessert soup
meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine)
soup spoon / tablespoon / CL:
bak-kut-teh or pork ribs soup, popular in Malaysia and Singapore
dough-drop soup (made by dropping small, irregular lumps of dough into the simmering broth)
food relief center / soup kitchen
kway chap (Teochew noodle soup)
borscht, a traditional beetroot soup
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
mushroom soup
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
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  *糨* | 糨* | *糨
(of soup, paste etc) thick
shark-fin soup
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
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  *羹* | 羹* | *羹
thick soup
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  *膷* | 膷* | *膷
hashed beef / soup
(loanword) tom yum (Thai soup)
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  *鉶* | 鉶* | *鉶
soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / old variant of


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