tǎ
tower
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 荅 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 塔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pagoda | ||
pyramid (building or structure) | ||
Taliban (Farsi: student), Afghan guerrilla faction | ||
lighthouse | ||
Qatar |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 24.1871% of movies
883rd most common character in movies
1030th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5854 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“塔，西域浮屠也。从土，答聲。” |
Sources
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