糖
餹HSK 3freq #2036
Meanings
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- 1.old variant of 糖[táng]
- 1.sugar
- 2.sweets
- 3.candy
- 4.CL:颗[kē],块[kuài]
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Wiktionary
- 1.sugar
- 2.saccharide; carbohydrate
- 3.to preserve food in alcohol or alcohol dregs
- 4.loveable and likeable, cute
- 5.HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drugs, especially pills
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'aːŋ): semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 唐 (OC *ɡl'aːŋ). Original meaning was “sweet rice cake” or “sugar syrup”. Cognate with 餳 (OC *ljaːŋ). Compare Proto-Lingao lhaŋ² ("sugar"), whence Lincheng /haŋ˧/, Qiongshan /liaŋ˩˧/.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
没有糖。
There's no sugar.
有没有糖？
Is there any sugar?
多放一點糖。
Put in a little more sugar.
你用多少糖？
How much sugar do you use?
我們想要糖。
We want candy.
我想要一颗糖。
I want a piece of candy.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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