The Chinese word for soup is
汤

tāng

Chinese Definition

soup
1. 名词. 汤。

湯
1. (literary or regional) hot or boiling water
赴湯蹈火 - to defy all difficulties and dangers, lit=to go through boiling water and tread on fire
2. broth; stock
高湯 - boullion
3. soup; water in which something has been boiled; beverage
薑湯 - ginger tea
我們晚餐喝湯。 - We will have soup for dinner.
元宵用水煮，隨湯一起吃。 - Sweet dumplings are boiled and served in hot water.
4. decoction of medicinal herbs
白虎湯 - White Tiger Decoction
5. hot spring
6. (dialectal Mandarin) dinner; meal
喝湯兒r - to have a meal Central Mandarin
7. (Min Nan) pus
8. Tang of Shang, founder of the Shang Dynasty of China
^湯 ^顯-祖 - Tang Xianzu (playwright of the Ming dynasty)
9. Used in 湯湯 (turbulent, tr=tàngtàng)
湯shāng湯shāng - torrential