Chinese Character Wiki

挞

tà

flog

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 达 represents the sound. Simplified form of 撻.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

达 sound component

达  Sound component

dá

  

arrive at

Evolution

挞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
挞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

挞 (撻) 

tà

flog, whip; chastise; (Cant.) classifier for places; a tart (from the English 'tart'); flog; rapid

Most common words with 挞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挞

flog

鞭挞

to lash

大张挞伐

to roundly condemn

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4510th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

撻

Unicode

U+631E


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