Memory phrase for the character: 荼

荼

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Meaning thistle, common sowthistle, bitter (taste), cruel

Pronunciation

tú

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, bottom: excess, remain 余 (A heap is still on the altar 示, thus in excess.)

Mnemonic
 
(The cattle do not eat it:) The plant that remains is: the thistle.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
余 remaining, excessUnder the roof, on the table, something is in excess.
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 Vocabulary

食荼卧棘 shí tú wò jí  to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
达罗毗荼 Dá luó pí tú  Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages)
如火如荼 rú huǒ rú tú  lit. white cogon flower like fire (idiom); fig. a mighty army like wildfire; daunting and vigorous (momentum); flourishing; magnificent
如火如荼 rú huǒ rú tú  

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