荼 · tú
thistle, sowthistle; bitter
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
thistle, sowthistle; bitter
- Mandarin
- tú
- Cantonese
- tou4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 荼 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ト シャ ヨ タ ダ ショ ヤ ズ にがな のげしKorean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+837C
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 荼
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 余 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 余聲
Line 15599 · ⿱艹余 · 余聲 · source reference 0124270
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- du · 同都 反切 · #282
- Middle Chinese
- zyae · 食遮 反切 · #772
- Middle Chinese
- drae · 宅加 反切 · #787
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2583 · du = 遇開一平模定 · zyae = 假開三平麻船 · drae = 假開二平麻澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tú
- kCantonese
- tou4
- kDefinition
- thistle, sowthistle; bitter
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 140.7
- kTGH
- 2013:4436
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tú,chá,yé,shū 53221.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tú 1163.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tú 372.030
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tú粵tou4 shū粵syu1 chá粵caa4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 同都 食遮 宅加
- Kangxi positions
- 1032.210
- Guangyun positions
- 082.42 165.36 168.30
- GSR references
- 0082x
- Cangjie
- TOMD
- Four-corner
- 4490.4