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榻

tà

Character

What 榻 means

1. couch

Words starting with 榻

• 榻榻米tà tà mǐtatami (loanword from Japanese)
• 榻床tà chuángdivan; couch

Words containing 榻

• 下榻xià tàto stay (at a hotel etc during a trip)
• 病榻bìng tàsickbed
• 卧榻wò tàa couch; a narrow bed

Characters built on 日

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

• 塌tāto collapse; to droop; to settle down
• 蹋tàto step on
• 遢tāused in 邋遢; Taiwan pr. tà
• 沓dáclassifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad; Taiwan pr. tà
• 旯láused in 旮旯
• 旮gāused in 旮旯
• 鳎tǎsole (fish)
• 褟tāinner shirt; to sew onto clothing; see also 禢

Characters that look like 榻

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

• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú
• 稻dàopaddy; rice (Oryza sativa)
• 蝙biānused in 蝙蝠
• 褐hèbrown; gray or dark color; coarse hemp cloth
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 裱biǎoto hang (paper); to mount (painting)

Sounds the same

Read tà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 踏to tread; to stamp; to step on
• 蹋to step on
• 拓to make a rubbing (e.g. of an inscription)
• 挞(bound form) to whip; to flog; (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. tǎ)
• 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