tāo
overflow
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 滔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
talking non-stop | ||
torrential | ||
overflow | ||
evil crimes fill heaven (idiom) | ||
Huang Tao (840-911), late Tang poet |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤu | thaw | tāo | rushing water |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3775% of movies
3039th most common character in movies
2760th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6ED4 |
Shuowen | “滔，水漫漫大皃。从水，舀聲。” |
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