Chinese Word of the Day

汤匙
tāng chí

spoon

Definitions

Chinese > English
汤匙
1. Simplified form of 湯匙
湯匙	tāngchí
1. n. spoon
English > Chinese
spoon
1. 匙；调羹；一匙的量
Components
汤
1. Simplified form of 湯
湯	tāng
1. (literary or regional) hot or boiling water
赴湯蹈火 - to defy all difficulties and dangers, lit=to go through boiling water and tread on fire
2. broth; stock
高湯 - boullion
3. soup; water in which something has been boiled; beverage
薑湯 - ginger tea
我們晚餐喝湯。 - We will have soup for dinner.
元宵用水煮，隨湯一起吃。 - Sweet dumplings are boiled and served in hot water.
4. decoction of medicinal herbs
白虎湯 - White Tiger Decoction
5. hot spring
6. (dialectal Mandarin) dinner; meal
喝湯兒r - to have a meal Central Mandarin
7. (Min Nan) pus
8. Tang of Shang, founder of the Shang Dynasty of China
湯 ^顯-祖 - Tang Xianzu (playwright of the Ming dynasty)
9. Used in 湯湯 (turbulent, tr=tàngtàng)
湯shāng湯shāng - torrential
匙	chí
1. spoon
2. key
鑰匙shi - key -
士啤匙si4 - spare key -