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挞

tà

Character Traditional 撻

What 挞 means

1. bound formto whip; to flog
2. loanword(pastry) tart (colloquial pr. tǎ)

Example sentences

• 你已经吃过香蕉挞了吗？
  Have you already eaten a banana tart?
• 新鲜出炉的蛋挞味道一流。
  Xīnxiān chūlú de dàntà wèidao yīliú.
  Egg tarts, when freshly baked, are a real delicacy.
• Melissa喜欢吃桃子挞。
  Melissa xǐhuan chī táozità.
  Melissa is fond of eating peach tarts.

Words containing 挞

• 笞挞chī tàto flog; to whip
• 葡挞pú tàPortuguese-style egg tart (pastel de nata)
• 蛋挞dàn tàegg tart (colloquial pr. dàn tǎ)
• 鞭挞biān tàto lash; (fig.) to castigate
• 大张挞伐dà zhāng tà fá(idiom) to launch an all-out attack; to roundly condemn; to castigate

Characters built on 达

These share the phonetic component 达 (dá), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 哒dā(phonetic); command to a horse; clatter (of horses' hoofs)
• 鞑DáTartar; a tribe in China
• 跶dāto stumble; to slip; variant of 达
• 闼tàdoor of an inner room
• 垯daused in 圪垯

Characters that look like 挞

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 挺tǐngstraight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body)
• 挝wōused 老挝
• 栅zhàfence; also pr. shān
• 翅chì(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
• 涎xiánsaliva
• 贻yíto present; to bequeath

Sounds the same

Read tà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 踏to tread; to stamp; to step on
• 蹋to step on
• 榻couch
• 拓to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription)
• 沓again and again; many
• 嗒used in 嗒然
• 闼door of an inner room
• 遝abundant; mixed
• 嚃(literary) to drink; to swallow
• 搨to make a rubbing
• 毾a coarse, woollen serge
• 譶to talk fast