荼 - tú - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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10 strokes
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荼

torment; cruelty; great suffering

mandala (loan, Buddhism)

to torment the people (idiom)

like wildfire (idiom); unstoppable

flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law

to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people

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