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


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