滔滔

Chinese

		overflow; torrent-dash	overflow; torrent-dash
simp. and trad. (滔滔)		滔	滔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāotāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹ tou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tāotāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ ㄊㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: taotao
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao¹-tʻao¹
    • Yale: tāu-tāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tautau
    • Palladius: таотао (taotao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou¹ tou¹
    • Yale: tōu tōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹ tou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou¹ tou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰou̯⁵⁵/

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 滔滔

1. (of water) overflowingly
2. (speaking) incessantly

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
滔	滔
とう Hyōgaiji	とう Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Alternative forms

• 滔々

Adjective

滔(とう)滔(とう) • (tōtō) ^†-tari (adnominal 滔(とう)滔(とう)とした (tōtō to shita) or 滔(とう)滔(とう)たる (tōtō taru), adverbial 滔(とう)滔(とう)と (tōtō to) or 滔(とう)滔(とう)として (tōtō to shite))

1. torrential (of flowing water)
2. voluble (of speech)
3. flowing strongly in one direction (of a matter of the times)