| 汤川秀树 | Tāng chuān Xiù shù | YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate | 
| 汤 | Tāng | surname Tang | 
| 汤 | shāng | rushing current | 
| 汤 | tāng | soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled | 
| 汤川 | Tāng chuān | Yukawa (name) / YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate | 
| 川 | Chuān | abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川 in southwest China | 
| 川 | chuān | (bound form) river / creek / plain / an area of level country | 
| 秀 | xiù | (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears | 
| 树 | shù | tree / CL:棵 / to cultivate / to set up |