Chinese symbol for “tablespoon”
汤匙
tāng chí
Traditional: 湯匙
soup spoon; tablespoon; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tablespoon is 汤匙 (tāng chí), defined as: soup spoon; tablespoon; measure word: 把 (bǎ).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 汤匙.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鸡汤 (雞湯) | jī tāng | chicken stock; chicken soup |
| 泡汤 (泡湯) | pào tāng | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall |
| 汤圆 (湯圓) | tāng yuán | boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival |
| 浓汤 (濃湯) | nóng tāng | thick soup; puree |
| 赴汤蹈火 (赴湯蹈火) | fù tāng dǎo huǒ | lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom); fig. to brave any danger |
| 钥匙 (鑰匙) | yào shi | key; measure word: 把 (bǎ) |
| 茶匙 | chá chí | teaspoon |
| 锁匙 (鎖匙) | suǒ chí | (dialect) key; Taiwan pr. [suo3 shi5] |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tablespoon”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.