汤tāng
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汤
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Shuowen
汤. In oracle bone script the character shows the water radical (氵) beside the component 昜, which originally depicted a vessel of hot liquid with steam rising, indicating "hot water" or "soup". The water radical signals the liquid, while 昜 serves as both a phonetic and a semantic element representing heat, explaining why the modern form is written with 氵 and 昜.
Pinyin
tāng· HSK 2