English
- thistle, sowthistle
- thistle
- bitter
- common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
- bitter (taste)
- cruel
- flowering grass in profusion
As a component in
Words containing 荼
- 荼毒tou4 duk6
(literary) to cause great suffering
- 如火如荼jyu4 fo2 jyu4 tou4
like wildfire (idiom)
- 荼毒生靈tou4 duk6 sang1 ling4
to torment the people (idiom)
- 荼蘼tou4 mei4
Rubus rosifolius
- 曼荼羅maan6 tou4 lo4
(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) mandala
- 秋荼密網cau1 tou4 mat6 mong5
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
- 食荼臥棘sik6 tou4 ngo6 gik1
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
- 達羅毗荼daat6 lo4 pei4 tou4
Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages)