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塔

pagoda
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingトウ

Meanings

  1. pagodaRtK
  2. tower
    彼はあそこの塔を指さした。He pointed to the tower over there.tatoeba
    塔はわずかに西へ傾いていた。The tower leaned slightly to the west.tatoeba
  3. steeple
  1. spire
  2. stupa

Synonyms

タワーパゴダ塔婆

Homonyms

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Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土) · flowers (艹) · fit · meeting · umbrella · one (一) · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 270

Compound words

塔はこっぱみじんに爆破された。
The tower was blown to atoms.tatoeba
塔の写真はピンぼけだった。
The picture of the tower was out of focus.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

巨大なオフィスビルも電波塔もないところに僕は引っ越してきた
きょだいなおふぃすびるもでんぱとうもないところにぼくはひっこしてきたI moved to a place with no huge office buildings or radio towers.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 塔

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