gēng
noun #15,622

Meanings

  1. 1 thick soup
  2. 2 broth

Examples

Māma zuò le yī wǎn dàn huā gēng.
Mom made a bowl of egg drop soup.

Tips

culture
refers to a thick, often starchy soup — different from the thinner (tāng). Common dishes include 西湖牛肉 (West Lake beef soup) and (hot and sour soup).

Components

semantic
gāo
lamb
Top — a lamb (sheep over fire), the classic young-mutton ingredient. Stacks the meat half of the dish on top. originally meant a rich stew made by simmering young lamb until the broth thickened. Indexed under Kangxi #123 (yáng) by tradition, taken from the sheep inside .
semantic
měi
beautiful; fine
Bottom — fine, savoury, drawn from a sheep with feathered horns. Together with the lamb above, gives 'fine sheep-meat stew' — a luxurious classical dish, and by extension any thick soup. The character is essentially two sheep characters fused into one dish.

Filed under radical (yáng) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

gēng