Memory phrase for the character: 滔


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Meaning

overflow, inundate, torrent-dash

Pronunciation

tāo

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼)

Mnemonic


 
The water will do this, when a hand reaches down into a mortar (filled up to the brim): overflow.

Radicals

waterSimplified from this water 水
reaching into mortar




 Vocabulary

滔滔 tāo tāo  torrential
滔滔 tāo tāo  torrential
滔滔不绝 tāo tāo bù jué  unceasing torrent (idiom); talking non-stop; gabbling forty to the dozen
滔滔不绝 tāo tāo bù jué  unceasing torrent (idiom); talking non-stop; gabbling forty to the dozen
黄滔 Huáng Tāo  Huang Tao (840-911), late Tang poet
黄滔 Huáng Tāo  


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