Used mainly as a suffix in Chinese-style soup names, e.g., 卵湯 (egg drop soup), 酸辣湯 (hot and sour soup). As a standalone noun, it refers to Chinese-style soup.
from Chinese tāng · from Korean tang
I'll have hot and sour soup for lunch today.
I ordered egg drop soup at the Chinese restaurant.
Chinese-style stir-fried vegetable noodle soup
top-grade Chinese soup stock
samgyetang; chicken ginseng soup
tangyuan; glutinous rice dumpling
Kanji form used in Chinese-style soup names; reading is タン, not ゆ.
Borrowed from Chinese 湯 (tāng), meaning 'soup' or 'broth'. The reading タン reflects the Chinese pronunciation.