泡汤 pàotāng to come to nothing Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 泡汤 泡湯 pào//tāng to come to nothing (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through; to fail or be wasted to soak in a hot spring (Taiwan) to have a soak in a hot spring bath; to bathe in hot water to dawdle to dillydally; to stall or waste time to soak in water to be immersed or soaked in water; to get wet Frequency Movie subtitles 3.22 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 2.07 per million Cross-References Synonym 打水漂 dǎshuǐpiāoSee 泡温泉 pàowēnquán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
泡汤 泡湯 pào//tāng to come to nothing (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through; to fail or be wasted to soak in a hot spring (Taiwan) to have a soak in a hot spring bath; to bathe in hot water to dawdle to dillydally; to stall or waste time to soak in water to be immersed or soaked in water; to get wet Frequency Movie subtitles 3.22 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 2.07 per million Cross-References Synonym 打水漂 dǎshuǐpiāoSee 泡温泉 pàowēnquán Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)