陀
(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
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How 陀 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
它 (semantic, “hill”) + 阝 (phonetic)
components: 阝 它
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 阝
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 阝 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阝 sound component | — | place, town, city |
| 耶 | yē | used in transliterations |
| 祁 | qí | to pray; numerous, ample, abundant |
| 陟 | zhì | to climb; to advance; progress |
| 郤 | xì | crack, crevice; gap, interval; surname |
Words containing 陀
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比勒陀利亚 | Bǐ lè tuó lì yà | Pretoria, capital of South Africa |
| 直布罗陀 | Zhí bù luó tuó | Gibraltar |
| 直布罗陀海峡 | Zhí bù luó tuó Hǎi xiá | Strait of Gibraltar |
| 陀罗尼 | tuó luó ní | incantation (Sanskrit: dharani); religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil) |
| 普陀区 | Pǔ tuó qū | Putuo district, central Shanghai; Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市[Zhou1 shan1 shi4], Z… |
| 普陀山 | Pǔ tuó shān | Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of … |
| 阿难陀 | Ē nán tuó | Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple |
| 盘陀路 | pán tuó lù | twisting path; tortuous road |
| 李维史陀 | Lǐ wéi Shǐ tuó | Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist |
| 阿弥陀如来 | Ē mí tuó rú lái | Amitabha, Buddha of infinite light |
| 因陀罗 | Yīn tuó luó | Indra (a Hindu deity) |
| 布洛陀 | Bù luò tuó | creator god of the Zhuang minority 壯族|壮族[Zhuang4 zu2] |
| 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | Tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… |
| 曼陀罗 | màn tuó luó | (botany) devil's trumpet (Datura stramonium) (loanword from Sanskrit "māndāra"); mandala (… |
| 头陀 | tóu tuó | itinerant monk (loanword from Sanskrit) |
| 曼陀林 | màn tuó lín | (loanword) mandolin |
| 南普陀寺 | Nán pǔ tuó sì | Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2] |
| 陀思妥也夫斯基 | Tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… |
| 华陀 | Huà Tuó | variant of 華佗|华佗[Hua4 Tuo2] |
| 阿弥陀佛 | Ē mí tuó Fó | Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; mer… |