陀
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(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 阜 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 陀
- Common rank
- #1,819
- Unicode
- U+9640
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Formation & memory
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Words with 陀
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比勒陀利亚 | Pretoria, capital of South Africa | |
| 直布罗陀 | Gibraltar | |
| 直布罗陀海峡 | Strait of Gibraltar | |
| 陀罗尼 | incantation (Sanskrit: dharani); religious chant (promoting virtue and obstructing evil) | |
| 普陀区 | Putuo district, central Shanghai; Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市[Zhou1 shan1 shi4], Z… | |
| 普陀山 | Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of … | |
| 阿难陀 | Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple | |
| 盘陀路 | twisting path; tortuous road | |
| 李维史陀 | Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), French social anthropologist | |
| 阿弥陀如来 | Amitabha, Buddha of infinite light | |
| 因陀罗 | Indra (a Hindu deity) | |
| 布洛陀 | creator god of the Zhuang minority 壯族|壮族[Zhuang4 zu2] | |
| 陀思妥耶夫斯基 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… | |
| 曼陀罗 | (botany) devil's trumpet (Datura stramonium) (loanword from Sanskrit "māndāra"); mandala (… | |
| 头陀 | itinerant monk (loanword from Sanskrit) | |
| 曼陀林 | (loanword) mandolin | |
| 南普陀寺 | Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2] | |
| 陀思妥也夫斯基 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Pu… | |
| 华陀 | variant of 華佗|华佗[Hua4 Tuo2] | |
| 阿弥陀佛 | Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!; mer… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 阝 — compare how they read.