塔tǎ
pagoda, tower. 12 strokes, radical 土, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin tǎStrokes 12Radical 土Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 塔
Strokes 1–3 write 土, then strokes 4–12 write 荅.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 塔 · the stroke-order rules
What 塔 is made of
土 (tǔ, soil) and 荅 (dā, to answer).
土 carries the meaning — earth — and 荅 carries the sound.
Words that use 塔
| 塔 | pagoda, tower 指多层的高耸建筑 有人劝他算了别再爬塔。People urged him to stop climbing the pagoda. Lesson 647, 木匠爬塔 · 商道诚信与金融稳健 · Commercial Integrity & Financial Stability |
Characters that share the sound part 荅
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 土
All 34 of them, and what the radical means, on the 土 radical page.