荼
Ancient forms
1 formGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
tú tu2
- thistle
- common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
- bitter (taste)
- cruel
- flowering grass in profusion
Example sentences
- zhànzhēng 战争 rúhuǒrútú 如火如荼 。War is like a raging fire.
Words with 荼
- 荼毒 túdú (literary) to cause great suffering
- 曼荼罗 màntúluó (Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) mandala
- 如火如荼 rúhuǒrútú like wildfire (idiom)
- 荼毒生灵 túdúshēnglíng to torment the people (idiom)
- 秋荼密网 qiūtúmìwǎng flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
- 食荼卧棘 shítúwòjí to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
- 达罗毗荼 Dáluópítú Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages)