塔

Stroke order

Japanese

塔 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10 in Chinese, 土+9 in Japanese, 13 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 土廿人口 (GTOR), four-corner 4416₁, composition ⿰土荅)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 235, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5332
• Dae Jaweon: page 473, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 460, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5854

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰuːb) : semantic 土 + phonetic 荅 (OC *tkuːb).

Borrowed from a Middle Indo-Aryan language into the late Old Chinese of Eastern Han (alternatively considered an early form of Middle Chinese), for example in the translations attributed to Lokakṣema. Cf. Ashokan Prakrit 𑀣𑀼𑀩𑁂 (thube), Gandhari 𐨠𐨂𐨬 (thuva) and other forms, Pali thūpa, vs. Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa).

塔

1. tower
2. pagoda
3. spire
4. tall building
5. (tarot) the Tower
6. (Taiwan) tart (pastry)

   蛋塔  ―  dàntǎ  ―  egg tart

   檸檬塔／柠檬塔  ―  níngméngtǎ  ―  lemon tart

7. (neologism, fandom slang) real identity of a virtual YouTuber
8. a surname: Ta

• (pagoda): 寶塔／宝塔 (bǎotǎ), 佛塔 (fótǎ)
• (tart): 撻／挞 (tà)

Others:

• → Thai: ถะ (tà, “pagoda”)

• “塔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 墖)

1. pagoda, tower, steeple

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たふ (tafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たふ (tafu, historical)}
• Kun: てら (tera)、おか (oka)、あららぎ (araragi, 塔)

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塔

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Pagoda

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/tapu/ → /taɸu/ → */tawu/ → /tau/ → /tɔː/ → /toː/

From Middle Chinese 塔 (MC thap, “tower, pagoda, spire”).

An abbreviation for 卒塔婆 (sotoba, sotōba), a transliteration of Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa, “heap”).^[1]

• (Tokyo) とー (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

塔(とう) • (tō) ^{←たふ (tafu)?}

1. tower (structure)

   二(ふた)つの塔(とう)

   Futatsu no Tō

   The Two Towers

2. (Buddhism) pagoda, stupa
3. (Christianity) steeple, spire
4. turret (of a castle or fortification)

塔(とう) • (-tō) ^{←たふ (-tafu)?}

1. (in general) tower
2. (Buddhist) pagoda, stupa
3. (Christianity) steeple, spire
4. turret (of a castle or fortification)

First appears in the Engishiki compilation of laws created in the early 900s, spelled phonetically in kanji as 阿良良伎.^[1] Spelled as 蘭, araragi literally means “wild onion” and refers to the wild rocambole, possibly hardneck garlic, notable for its tall green stalk sticking straight up. Used as a euphemism for 塔 (tafu at the time),^[1][2] as that word's Buddhist connotations were viewed as taboo in contexts having to do with the religious center of Itsuki no Miya (斎宮, also known as Saikū).

• IPA^(key):

塔(あららぎ) • (araragi) 

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) tower

• 塔(あららぎ)舞(まい) (Araragimai): the title of a piece of bugaku Japanese court dance

塔(あららぎ) • (Araragi) 

1. (tarot) The Tower, the sixteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks
2. Short for 塔舞 (Araragimai): the title of a piece of bugaku Japanese court dance

• 蘭(あららぎ) (araragi): the wild rocambole

塔 (eumhun 탑 탑 (tap tap))

1. hanja form^? of 탑 (“tower”)

塔: Hán Việt readings: tháp^{[1][2][3][4][5]}, đáp^[3]
塔: Nôm readings: tháp^[1][2], thạp^[2], thóp^[2], đắp^[1]

1. chữ Hán form of tháp (“tower”).
2. Nôm form of đắp (“to cover”).