荼 — Chinese character
荼
tú
a bitter vegetable
- Pinyin
- tú
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 余
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 余
- Japanese
- 荼 as a kanji
Common words with 荼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 如火如荼 | rú huǒ rú tú | like wildfire (idiom); unstoppable |
| 荼毒 | tú dú | (literary) to cause great suffering |
| 曼荼罗 (曼荼羅) | màn tú luó | (Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) mandala |
| 秋荼密网 (秋荼密網) | qiū tú mì wǎng | flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law |
| 荼毒生灵 (荼毒生靈) | tú dú shēng líng | to torment the people (idiom) |
| 食荼卧棘 (食荼臥棘) | shí tú wò jí | to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people |
English words written with 荼
荼 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 2
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.