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鞑

Dá

Character Traditional 韃

What 鞑 means

1. Tartar
2. a tribe in China

Words starting with 鞑

• 鞑靼Dá dáTartar (various northern tribes in ancient China); Tatar…
• 鞑虏Dá lǔTartar (derogatory); also used as an insulting term for Manchus around 1900
• 鞑靼人Dá dá rénTatar (person)
• 鞑靼海峡Dá dá Hǎi xiáStrait of Tartary between Sakhalin and Russian mainland

Words containing 鞑

• 驱除鞑虏qū chú Dá lǔexpel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900

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)
• 挞tà(bound form) to whip; to flog; (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. tǎ)
• 跶dāto stumble; to slip; variant of 达
• 闼tàdoor of an inner room
• 垯daused in 圪垯

Characters that look like 鞑

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

• 鞋xiéshoe
• 飘piāoto float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
• 撇piēto cast away; to fling aside
• 糙cāorough; coarse (in texture)
• 鲑guītrout; salmon
• 踉liángused in 跳踉

Sounds the same

Read Dá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 达to attain; to reach; to amount to
• 答to answer; to reply; to respond
• 瘩sore; boil; scab
• 沓classifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad; Taiwan pr. tà
• 妲female personal name (archaic)
• 打(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. dǎ
• 靼(phonetic); dressed leather
• 怛distressed; alarmed; shocked
• 繨a knot (of a rope)
• 笪rough bamboo mat
• 龖(literary) dragons in flight
• 剳hook; sickle