湯
Meanings
Refers to heated water, often contrasted with 水 (cold water). Used in cooking, bathing, and general contexts.
See also: 水 (みず)
Let's boil some hot water and make coffee.
Please take this medicine with hot water.
Often refers to a hot bath at home, a public bath (銭湯), or a hot spring (温泉). The honorific prefix お is frequently added.
I'm tired, so I want to soak in a hot bath for a while.
The hot spring at this inn feels really good.
Technical use in metalworking and foundry contexts. Not an everyday meaning.
Molten iron flows out from the blast furnace.
Usage patterns
- 〈物〉に湯を注ぐto pour hot water onto/into something
I poured hot water into the instant noodles and waited three minutes.
- 湯に浸かるto soak in a hot bath
I soaked in the warm bath water at the inn to relieve my tiredness.
- 湯加減を見るto check the temperature of the bathwater
My mother checked the water temperature with her hand before putting the child in.
- 湯を切るto drain off the hot water (esp. when cooking)
After boiling the pasta, drain the water and mix it with the sauce.
Expressions· 8
- 湯を使うtake a hot bath
- 美人の湯hot spring good for the skin
- 美肌の湯hot spring good for the skin; skin-beautifying bath
- 湯を沸すboil water; get the bath ready
- 湯水のようにlike water; as if it were free; like it grows on trees
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- ぬるま湯につかるbe in a comfortable situation; rest on one's laurels; be coddled
- 煮え湯を飲まされるto be betrayed; to be stabbed in the back · to be given a hard time; to be brought to grief
- 湯を沸かして水にするwasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile