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soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
HSK 3
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
mushroom soup
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
Tangyin county in Anyang 安陽|安阳, Henan
to simmer / soup made by simmering for a long time
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
dinner party given on the third day after the birth of a baby (traditional)
Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom
to flatter / to butter sb up
second bouillon, a light broth obtained by reboiling ingredients that were previously used to make a full-strength first bouillon 頭湯|头汤
clear soup / soup stock
soup; broth
hot spring (archaic)
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
soup spoon / tablespoon / CL:
Tom (name)
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)
thick soup / puree
four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
Xiaotangshan town in Beijing municipality
impregnable fortress (abbr. for 金城湯池|金城汤池)
soup ladle
decoction / potion
tisane / decoction (Chinese medicine)
raw materials for making soup / packaged soup mix
lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom) / fig. to brave any danger / to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)
(coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing / to dawdle; to stall / (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
broth / clear soup / consommé
liquor; booze / murky, muddy water
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
Thomson (name)
eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
(name) Thompson
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
soup
lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack
soup plate
impregnable fortress
Stendhal
potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆湯|孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions
meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless
Yukawa (name) / YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
hot-water bottle
first bouillon, a broth made with ingredients that may later be reboiled to make a second bouillon 二湯|二汤
water roux (aka tangzhong), a gelatinous paste made by heating a mixture of flour and water, used in breadmaking to produce a softer, fluffier loaf (loanword from Japanese 湯種 yudane)
(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")
to prepare a soup
Thomas Cup (international badminton team competition)
(old) hot bath
soup dishes (on menu)
different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only / a change in form but not in substance
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
bouillon cube
to ladle out soup
Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), Ming poet and dramatist, author of The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭
SenseTime, artificial intelligence company focused on computer vision and deep learning technologies, founded in Hong Kong in 2014
miso soup
Tangyin county in Anyang 安陽|安阳, Henan
dough-drop soup (made by dropping small, irregular lumps of dough into the simmering broth)
water in which rice has been boiled and then strained out
borscht, a traditional beetroot soup
samgyetang, popular Korean chicken soup with ginseng, spices etc
Tang Yulin (1871-1937), minor warlord in northeast China, sometime governor of Chengde 承德, mostly poor in battle but very successful at accumulating personal wealth
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王
san'ao decoction (TCM)
(loanword) gin and tonic
Tangyuan county in Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯, Heilongjiang
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
shark fin soup
hot-water bottle
steamed soup dumpling
tonic water
Thompson or Thomson (name)
Tonga
cabbage, rice and tofu soup
meat soup / broth
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
to manage a situation badly (idiom)
soup of the day
Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty
white broth, or milky broth: an unctuous, milky white pork broth of Chinese cuisine
(coll.) to pay compensation for medical expenses
battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution
(Tw) (slang) don't; must not; won't do (from Taiwanese 毋通, Tai-lo pr. [m̄-thang], similar to Mandarin 不要 or 不行)
(coll.) profit-motivated article cynically disguised as feel-good content 雞湯|鸡汤 and designed to go viral
large pool in a bathhouse
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surname Tang
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rushing current
Tongariro, volcanic area on North Island, New Zealand
steamed dumpling
Tumblr (microblogging and social networking website)
Tangyuan county in Kiamusze or Jiamusi city 佳木斯, Heilongjiang
Tom Clancy (1947-2013), US author
Tom Robbins, American novelist
YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
soup bowl
noodles in soup

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