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塔 (Kangxi radical 32,土+10in Chinese, 土+9in Japanese, 13 strokesin Chinese, 12 strokesin Japanese,cangjie input土廿人口 (GTOR),four-corner4416₁,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 aMiddle Indo-Aryan language into the lateOld Chinese ofEastern Han (alternatively considered an early form ofMiddle Chinese), for example in the translations attributed toLokakṣema. Cf.Ashokan Prakrit𑀣𑀼𑀩𑁂(thube),Gandhari𐨠𐨂𐨬(thuva) and other forms,Palithūpa, vs.Sanskritस्तूप(stūpa).

塔

1. tower
2. pagoda
3. spire
4. tallbuilding
5. (tarot) theTower
6. (Taiwan)tart(pastry)

   蛋塔  ― dàntǎ  ―  eggtart

   檸檬塔／柠檬塔  ― níngméngtǎ  ―  lemontart

7. (neologism, fandomslang) realidentity of avirtual YouTuber
8. asurname,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)‎^[2],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆[Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “塔”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page223.

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

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

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

• (Tokyo)とー[tóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ː]

塔(とう)• (tō) ^{←たふ(tafu)?}

1. tower(structure)

   二(ふた)つの塔(とう)

   Futatsu noTō

   The TwoTowers

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 theEngishiki 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 wildrocambole, possiblyhardneck garlic, notable for its tall green stalk sticking straight up. Used as aeuphemism for塔 (tafu at the time),^[1][2] as that word's Buddhist connotations were viewed astaboo in contexts having to do with the religious center ofItsuki no Miya (斎宮, also known asSaikū).

• IPA^(key): [a̠ɾa̠ɾa̠ɡʲi]

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) TheTower, the sixteenthtrump ormajor arcanacard in most traditional Tarot decks
2. Short for塔舞(Araragimai): the title of a piece ofbugaku Japanese court dance

• 蘭(あららぎ)(araragi): the wildrocambole

塔 (eumhun탑탑(tap tap))

1. hanja form^? of탑(“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 oftháp(“tower”).
2. chữ Nôm form ofđắp(“to cover”).

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