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沱

tuó

Character

What 沱 means

1. tearful
2. to branch (of river)

Words starting with 沱

• 沱茶tuó cháa cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶; dome shaped tea-brick; caked tea
• 沱沱河Tuó tuó Hésource of Changjiang or Yangtze river
• 沱灢Tuó nǎngsee 岘港

Words containing 沱

• 滂沱pāng tuópouring; flooding
• 涕泗滂沱tì sì pāng tuóa flood of tears and mucus; broken-hearted and weeping bitterly
• 滂沱大雨pāng tuó dà yǔtorrents of rain (idiom)

Characters built on 它

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

• 陀tuó(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
• 驼tuóhump or hunchbacked; camel
• 舵duòhelm; rudder
• 鸵tuóostrich
• 坨tuómound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits)…
• 佗tuócarry on the back
• 砣tuósteelyard weight; stone roller; to polish jade with an emery wheel
• 跎tuóto stumble; to waste time

Characters that look like 沱

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

• 绝juéto cut short; extinct; to disappear
• 炮pàocannon; firecracker
• 挖wāto dig; to excavate; to scoop out
• 恺kǎijoyful; kind
• 坨tuómound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits)…
• 佗tuócarry on the back

Sounds the same

Read tuó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 陀(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
• 驼hump or hunchbacked; camel
• 坨mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits)…
• 驮to carry on one's back
• 砣steelyard weight; stone roller; to polish jade with an emery wheel
• 鸵ostrich
• 佗carry on the back
• 跎to stumble; to waste time
• 酡flushed (from drinking)
• 驒(horse)
• 橐sack; tube open at both ends; (onomatopoeia) footsteps
• 紽braid on a robe