塌

tā

HSK 7freq #8276

Meanings

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tā

1.to collapse
2.to droop
3.to settle down

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Wiktionary

1.to collapse; to fall down; to cave in
2.to sink; to droop
3.to calm down; to settle down
4.to slump; to sink (of morale, etc.)
5.to fill up; to fill in; to stuff (a gap, blank, vacancy, etc.)
6.to stack or press close together crisscrossed
7.to lose money
8.to become sunken; to hollow; to form a depression

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tʰaːb): semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 𦐇 (tà)

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Stroke order

Components

塌土𦐇

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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Related words

倒塌 to collapse (of building)疲塌 variant of 疲沓[pí ta]崩塌 talus slide 塌架 to collapse 塌房 (neologism c. 2020) (of a celebrity) to have one's reputation tank due to a scandal 颓塌 to collapse 垮塌 to collapse (of building, dam or bridge)冲塌 to cause (a dam) to collapse 塌台 to collapse 塌方 to cave in; to collapse; to have a landslide 塌陷 to subside 坍塌 to collapse