HSK 6 · Places

塔 tǎ “tower” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 塔 means

  1. tower
  2. pagoda
  3. pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆, a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa)
  4. pylon
  5. (loanword) (pastry) tart

How to say 塔

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale塔tǎ3rd tone, dipping

塔 in a sentence

  1. 那座塔有多高啊？

    Nà zuò tǎ yǒu duō gāo a?

    How tall is that tower?

    Sentence #10491063 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们远远地就看见了那座塔。

    Wǒmen yuǎnyuǎn de jiù kànjiàn le nà zuò tǎ.

    We could see the tower from a long way off.

    Sentence #1880301 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 塔有点向西边倾斜。

    Tǎ yǒudiǎn xiàng xībian qīngxié.

    The tower leans slightly to the west.

    Sentence #5868151 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 塔 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 塔 (tǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
塔tǎpagoda; tower; pylon
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 荅to answer · dāSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 荅 (dā) hints at the sound. Compare it with tǎ.

How to write 塔

塔 12 strokes

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塔 (tǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 塔 (tǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 塔

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FAQs

塔 (tǎ) means “tower” or “pagoda”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tǎ: tǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 塔 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ta with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 塔 from the suggestions. Typing ta into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
塔 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.