滔 — Chinese character
滔
tāo
torrential, rushing, overflowing
- Pinyin
- tāo
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 舀
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 舀
- Japanese
- 滔 as a kanji
Common words with 滔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滔滔 | tāo tāo | torrential |
| 滔滔不绝 (滔滔不絕) | tāo tāo bù jué | (idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on |
| 滔天 | tāo tiān | (of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering; overwhelming; immense |
| 滔天大罪 | tāo tiān dà zuì | heinous crime |
| 罪恶滔天 (罪惡滔天) | zuì è tāo tiān | (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes |
| 洪水滔滔 | hóng shuǐ tāo tāo | (idiom) to have flooding over a vast area |
English words written with 滔
滔 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.