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沓

dá, tà

crowded, repeated

Original meaning: 

mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot

Depicts speech flowing out of the mouth (曰) like water (水). Based on the original meaning "mouth like a torrent, speaking a lot". The meaning later expanded to "repeated", "crowded", "join", and "unite".

Components
水 iconic component

水  Iconic component

shuǐ

  

water

曰 iconic component

曰  Iconic component

yuē

  

say

Evolution

沓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
沓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
沓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沓  

dá

connected, joined; repeated; classifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad; Taiwan pr. [tà]

沓  

Tà

surname Ta

沓  

tà

again and again; many

Most common words with 沓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沓

Taiwan pr. [tà]

纷至沓来

to come thick and fast (idiom)

拖沓

dilatory

杂沓

jumbled mass

疲沓

slack

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

踏

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-rˤəp

dop

tà

join, unite


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3806th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6C93

Shuowen

“沓，語多沓沓也。从水，从曰。遼東有沓縣。”


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