dá, tà
crowded, repeated
Original meaning:
mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot
Depicts speech flowing out of the mouth (曰) like water (水). Based on the original meaning "mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot". The meaning later expanded to "repeated", "crowded", "join", and "unite".
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 沓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Taiwan pr. [tà] | ||
to come thick and fast (idiom) | ||
dilatory | ||
jumbled mass | ||
slack |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-rˤəp | dop | tà | join, unite |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3806th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6C93 |
Shuowen | “沓,語多沓沓也。从水,从曰。遼東有沓縣。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.416-417
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