tú
bitter vegetable
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tú
bitter vegetable; thistle; common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus); bitter (taste); cruel; flowering grass in profusion
Most common words with 荼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
unstoppable | ||
thistle | ||
torment | ||
mandala (loan, Buddhism) | ||
to torment the people (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤra | drae | chá | (name of a plant) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3930th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+837C |
Shuowen | “荼，苦荼也。从艸，余聲。” |
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