The Chinese Radical: 汤


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Meaning
soup    汤

Explanation The right half was simplified from 易, which shows the sun 日 with its warming rays 勿, so that the water 氵 warms up and becomes soup.

Used in these characters:
HSK 4
soup, hot or boiling water
tāng
Left: water 氵, right simplified from: easy 易 (This shows the warming sun 日 with its shine 勿.)
"Water" is warmed by the sunshine and turns into: a soup.  
HSK 5
hot, to burn, to scald, to iron
tàng
Top: soup 汤 (Water 氵 is made by warming sunshine 易 into: a soup.), bottom: fire 火
The soup from the fire is: hot and you will burn.  
HSK 6
to wash, to squander, to sweep away, dissolute
dàng
Top: grass, plant 艹, bottom: soup 汤 (Water 氵is turned by warming sunrays 易 into: a soup.)
(There are organic laundry detergents.) When you take plants to make a 'soup' you can use it for washing.  

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.




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