塔

See also: 墖

Translingual

Han character

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)

References

• 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

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Chinese

trad.		塔
simp. #		塔
alternative forms		墖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa, “stupa”).

tart

From English tart

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 塔

1. tower
2. pagoda
3. spire
4. tall building
5. (Taiwan) tart

Synonyms

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

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (塔):

• → Japanese: 塔(とう) (tō)
• → Korean: 탑(塔) (tap)
• → Vietnamese: tháp (塔)

Others:

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Japanese

Kanji

塔

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 墖)

1. pagoda, tower, steeple

Readings

• 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)

Compounds

Compounds

• 五(ご)輪(りん)の石(せき)塔(とう) (gorin no sekitō), 五(ご)輪(りん)の塔(とう) (gorin no tō): a five-ring or five-level stone stupa
• 仏塔(ぶっとう) (buttō): a Buddhist reliquary stupa; a Buddhist temple pagoda or stupa
• 五(ご)重(じゅう)塔(のとう) (gojū no tō), 五(ご)重(じゅう)の塔(とう) (gojū no tō): a five-storey pagoda
• 石塔(せきとう) (sekitō): a stone pagoda or stupa; a Buddhist tombstone
• 三(さん)重(じゅう)塔(のとう) (sanjū no tō), 三(さん)重(じゅう)の塔(とう) (sanjū no tō): a three-storey pagoda
• 塔(とう)屋(や) (tōya): a penthouse; a structure on top of a building, possibly the top of the elevator shaft, the stairs, ventilation equipment, or a water tower
• 塔(とう)花(ばな) (tōbana): genus , including wild mints and basils; slender wild basil ()

• 塔(とう)型(がた)クレーン (tōgata kurēn): a tower crane
• 塔克拉瑪(タクラマ)干(カン)砂(さ)漠(ばく) (Takuramakan sabaku): the Taklamakan Desert
• 塔主(たっす) (tassu), 塔司(たっす) (tassu): job title for the caretaker of a Buddhist cemetery
• 塔(たっ)頭(ちゅう) (tatchū), 塔(たっ)中(ちゅう) (tatchū): in Zen Buddhism, the location of a stupa for a past master or founder; the title of the monk in charge of that stupa; a small chapel within a larger temple
• 塔頭(たっちょう) (tatchō): an old grave; a graveyard, a cemetery
• 塔(とう)婆(ば) (tōba): a stupa: short for 卒塔婆 (sotōba)
• 塔(とう)廟(びょう) (tōbyō): a Buddhist reliquary stupa
• 塔望(とうぼう)遠鏡(えんきょう) (tōbōenkyō): a tower telescope, a tower observatory
• 塔里木(タリム) (Tarimu): the Tarim Basin

Etymology 1

塔} (tō): a pagoda.

/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”) .

Noun

塔(とう) • (tō) ^{←たふ (tafu)?}

1. a tower (structure)

   二(ふた)つの塔(とう)

   Futatsu no Tō

   The Two Towers

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 塔(とう)の層(こし) (tō no koshi): the stacked floors of a pagoda
• 塔(とう)ノ沢(さわ)温泉(おんせん) (Tō no Sawa onsen): an onsen (hot spring) in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture

Idioms

Idioms

• 塔(とう)は下(した)から組(く)め (tō wa shita kara kume): “build a tower from the bottom up” → no good building without a good foundation

Suffix

塔(とう) or 塔(suffix) • (tō or suffix) ^{←たふ (tafu)?}[[Category:Japanese
|とう]]

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

Etymology 2

First appears in the Engishiki compilation of laws created in the early 900s, spelled phonetically in kanji as 阿良良伎 (araragi). 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), 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).

Noun

塔(あららぎ) • (araragi) 

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) a tower
2. (tarot) the tower, the sixteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks
3. short for 塔舞 (Araragimai): the title of a piece of bugaku Japanese court dance

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

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Korean

Hanja

塔 • (tap) (hangeul 탑, McCune–Reischauer t'ap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 塔 (tháp)

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