Dictionary › 清汤寡水

清汤寡水

qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ

4-character word Traditional 清湯寡水

What 清汤寡水 means

1. meager fare
2. (fig.) insipid
3. colorless

The characters in 清汤寡水

• 清qīng(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 汤tāngsoup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs
• 寡guǎfew; scant; widowed
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qīng tāng guǎ shuǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.