湯
简 汤 · 繁 湯Meanings · tong1
- (noun) Chinese surname
Meanings · joeng4
- part of a place name, a place where the sun rises from in ancient legends
Meanings · soeng1
- gushing (current)
- wide
- fluent
- swift current
- torrent
Meanings · tong1
- soup
- hot or boiling water
- decoction of medicinal herbs
- water in which sth has been boiled
- a surname
Meanings · tong3
- an alternative form for 燙, scald
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 湯 Tāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Tang
- 湯 shāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinrushing current
- 湯 tāng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsoup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: tang1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 16 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
joeng4 · soeng1 · tong1 · tong3
Cantonese word readings for 湯. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (literary or regional) hot or boiling water
- broth; stock
- soup; water in which something has been boiled; beverage
- decoction of medicinal herbs
- hot spring
- (dialectal Mandarin) dinner; meal
- (Southern Min) pus
- Tang of Shang, founder of the Shang Dynasty of China
- a surname
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 燙／烫 (tàng, “to warm; to bathe or rinse in hot water”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to touch; to come in contact with
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to meet with
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 蕩 /荡 (dàng, “to wander; unconstrained”)
- used in 湯湯／汤汤 (tàngtàng, “turbulent”)
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of a river current) rushing; great; torrential
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 湯谷／汤谷, alternative form of 暘谷 /旸谷
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