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蹋

tà

HSK 6 Character

What 蹋 means

1. to step on

Example sentences

• 没有什么比早泄更糟蹋生活的了
  Méiyǒushénme bǐ zǎoxiè gèng zāotà shēnghuó de le
  There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.
• 没有什幺比早泄更糟蹋生活的了
  There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.
• 佳人不可唐突，好酒不可糟蹋，这两件事你以后一定要牢记在心。
  Jiā rén bù kě tángtū, hǎo jiǔ bù kě zāotà, zhè liǎng jiàn shì nǐ yǐhòu yīdìng yào láojì zài xīn.
  You should not be rude towards beauties and you should not waste good wine. You must keep these two things in mind in the future.

Words containing 蹋

• 糟蹋zāo tàto waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck; to insult; to humiliate
• 踢蹋舞tī tà wǔtap dance; step dance
• 蹧蹋zāo tàvariant of 糟蹋

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.

• 榻tàcouch
• 塌tāto collapse; to droop; to settle down
• 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 蹋

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

• 操cāoto grasp; to hold; to operate
• 蹄tíhoof; pig's trotters
• 蹑nièto walk on tiptoe; to walk quietly; to tread (on)
• 蹊qīused in 蹊跷; Taiwan pr. xī
• 蹒pánused in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 飚biāovariant of 飙

Sounds the same

Read tà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 踏to tread; to stamp; to step on
• 榻couch
• 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