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滔 — 13 strokes ／ Radical「氵」

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1University / general (hardest) ／ 13 strokes ／ Radical「氵」
On
トウとう · tō
Kun
はびこ.るhabiko.ru
Meaning
to overflow

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Water 氵 with 舀 as phonetic: for water to swell and overflow.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 滔滔とうとう

    flowing on; fluently

  • 滔天とうてん

    reaching to heaven

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

滔滔(とうとう)と持論(じろん)を述(の)べ続(つづ)けた。

They went on stating their view fluently.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

滔天滔天heaven汕nettin…汨to sin…沍to fre…沂a rive…沁to soa…叨reckle…抖to sha…苳butter…帑treasu…荅adzuki…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 氵Map of reading トウAll maps

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