滔
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(bound form) to inundate; deluge; torrent
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 水 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 滔
- Common rank
- #3,640
- Unicode
- U+6ED4
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 滔 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 舀 sound ()
Components 氵 舀
How to remember it
surging · Heisig RSH #2962
水 water + scoop
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 滔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滔天大罪 | heinous crime | |
| 罪恶滔天 | (idiom) to have committed heinous crimes | |
| 滔天 | (of waves, anger, a disaster, a crime etc) towering; overwhelming; immense | |
| 黄滔 | Huang Tao (840-911), late Tang poet | |
| 滔滔不绝 | (idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on | |
| 洪水滔滔 | (idiom) to have flooding over a vast area | |
| 滔滔 | torrential |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 舀 — compare how they read.