Keyword
steep bank
- rough terrain
- Frequency
- #2530
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
tuó
Mnemonic
它 (hill) gives the meaning and 阝 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
佛陀
Buddha (a person who has attained Buddhahood, or specifically Siddhartha Gautama)
陀
(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
阿弥陀佛
Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; merciful Buddha!
陀螺
spinning top; gyroscope
直布罗陀
Gibraltar
弥陀
Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Paradise; abbr. for 阿弥陀佛; Mituo or Mito township in Kaohsiung county 高雄县 (Gāoxióngxiàn), southwest Taiwan
普陀山
Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 观音 (Avalokiteśvara)
普陀区
Putuo district, central Shanghai; Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市 (Zhōushānshì), Zhejiang
曼陀罗
(botany) devil's trumpet (Datura stramonium) (loanword from Sanskrit "māndāra"); mandala (loanword from Sanskrit "maṇḍala")
吠陀
Vedas (Hindu sacred writings or legends)
陀螺仪
gyroscope
陀罗尼
incantation (Sanskrit: dharani); religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil)
比勒陀利亚
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
头陀
itinerant monk (loanword from Sanskrit)
因陀罗
Indra (a Hindu deity)
直布罗陀海峡
Strait of Gibraltar
曼陀林
(loanword) mandolin
曼陀铃
(loanword) mandolin
布洛陀
creator god of the Zhuang minority 壮族 (Zhuàngzú)
盘陀
twisted; spiral; uneven stones