| 荼 | |||
| bitter vegetable | |||
| Radical | 䒑艸艹艹艹 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 13 |
| Mandarin reading | tú chá shū yé | Cantonese reading | tou4 |
| Japanese on reading | to do ta | Japanese kun reading | nigana |
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | dưa | |
| 荼 | |||
| bitter vegetable | |||
| Radical | 䒑艸艹艹艹 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 13 |
| Mandarin reading | tú chá shū yé | Cantonese reading | tou4 |
| Japanese on reading | to do ta | Japanese kun reading | nigana |
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | dưa | |
| 荼毒生灵 | [ tú dú shēng líng ] to torment the people (idiom) |
| ⇒ 曼荼罗 | [ màn tú luó ] mandala (loan, Buddhism) |
| ⇒ 秋荼密网 | [ qiū tú mì wǎng ] flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law |
| ⇒ 达罗毗荼 | [ dá luó pí tú ] Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages) |
| ⇒ 食荼卧棘 | [ shí tú wò jí ] to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people |