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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
(coll.) profit-motivated article cynically disguised as feel-good content 雞湯|鸡汤 and designed to go viral
Tonga
Thomas Cup (international badminton team competition)
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
water in which rice has been boiled and then strained out
broth / clear soup / consommé
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
samgyetang, popular Korean chicken soup with ginseng, spices etc
(coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing / to dawdle; to stall / (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
Thompson or Thomson (name)
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)
Tom Clancy (1947-2013), US author
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
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; broth
bouillon cube
Tom Cruise (1962-), film actor
noodles in soup
steamed soup dumpling
Tom Robbins, American novelist
shark fin soup
SenseTime, artificial intelligence company focused on computer vision and deep learning technologies, founded in Hong Kong in 2014
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surname Tang
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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rushing current
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
to flatter / to butter sb up
soup spoon / tablespoon / CL:
hot-water bottle
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
to butter sb up / to try to impress sb
borscht, a traditional beetroot soup
clear soup / soup stock
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Thomson (name)
(name) Thompson
eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
Tom (name)
to simmer / soup made by simmering for a long time
meat soup / broth
to ladle out soup
large pool in a bathhouse
tonic water
Tongariro, volcanic area on North Island, New Zealand
dough-drop soup (made by dropping small, irregular lumps of dough into the simmering broth)
noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth
four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
to bathe in a fragrant hot spring (idiom)
Tangyuan, a county in Jiamusi City 佳木斯市, Heilongjiang
shark-fin soup
Shang Tang (1646-? BC), legendary founder of the Shang Dynasty
meager fare / (fig.) insipid / colorless
hot spring (archaic)
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
miso soup
san'ao decoction (TCM)
to manage a situation badly (idiom)
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)
hot-water bottle
soup plate
mushroom soup
(loanword) gin and tonic
Tonga, South Pacific archipelago kingdom
tisane / decoction (Chinese medicine)
cabbage, rice and tofu soup
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
clear soup containing beaten egg and green leafy vegetable / eggdrop soup
impregnable fortress (abbr. for 金城湯池|金城汤池)
Tangyin, a county in Anyang City 安陽市|安阳市, Henan
impregnable fortress
raw materials for making soup / packaged soup mix
soup bowl
Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), Ming poet and dramatist, author of The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭
soup
steamed dumpling
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
Tangwanghe, a district of Yichun City 伊春市, Heilongjiang
second bouillon, a light broth obtained by reboiling ingredients that were previously used to make a full-strength first bouillon 頭湯|头汤
(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")
Tumblr (microblogging and social networking website)
Yukawa (name) / YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
soup of the day
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
(old) hot bath
Xiaotangshan town in Beijing municipality
(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)
soup ladle
decoction / potion
white broth, or milky broth: an unctuous, milky white pork broth of Chinese cuisine
thick soup / puree
to prepare a soup
YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
Stendhal
battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution
first bouillon, a broth made with ingredients that may later be reboiled to make a second bouillon 二湯|二汤

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