沓

Mandarin · pinyin dá#

Meanings · dá

  1. classifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad
  2. Taiwan pr. tà
Mandarin · pinyin tà#

Meanings · tà

  1. again and again
  2. many
Mandarin · pinyin Tà#

Meanings · Tà

  1. surname Ta
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

沓
dá · tà · connected, joined; repeated
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2 · da2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

1character link34same-tone records
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

沓 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Rime · Wiktionary

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daap6

Cantonese word readings for 沓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character

  1. wordy; talkative
  2. numerous; profuse; repeated; overlapping
  3. to meet; to join
  4. (Hokkien) constantly; incessantly
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) undisciplined; disrespectful
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to surge; to boil
  7. name of a disease
  8. (historical) an ancient county in modern Liaoning
  9. a surname

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to drum while advancing
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) greedy; insatiable; avaricious
  3. (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 錔 /𰾓 (tà)
  4. Classifier for a set of objects.

character

  1. Classifier for sheets of papers, etc.

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

沓 · da2 · ta4 · Ta4
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source lines 63,322, 63,323, 63,321
Original dictionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & transformation details
Exact source records沓 沓 [da2] /classifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad/Taiwan pr. [ta4]/沓 沓 [ta4] /again and again/many/沓 沓 [Ta4] /surname Ta/