| 荼 | [ tú ] thistle, common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus), bitter (taste), cruel, flowering grass in profusion |
| 荼毒 | [ tú dú ] torment, cruelty, great suffering |
| 荼毒生靈 | [ tú dú shēng líng ] to torment the people (idiom) |
| ⇒ 如火如荼 | [ rú huǒ rú tú ] like wildfire (idiom), unstoppable |
| ⇒ 曼荼羅 | [ màn tú luó ] mandala (loan, Buddhism) |
| ⇒ 秋荼密網 | [ qiū tú mì wǎng ] flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law |
| ⇒ 達羅毗荼 | [ dá luó pí tú ] Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages) |
| ⇒ 食荼臥棘 | [ shí tú wò jí ] to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people |