荼 — do

Parts that make up 荼

How 荼 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 荼 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 余.

Japanese words with 荼

• 曼荼羅まんだら mandala
• 荼毘だび cremation
• 軍荼利ぐんだり Kundali (tantric Buddhist deity)
• 荼枳尼だきに Dakini (fairy-goddess)
• 鳩槃荼くはんだ Kumbhanda; demon with large testicles believed to drain people of their vitality
• 大曼荼羅だいまんだら great mandala (in Shingon); mandala with an image of each deity
• 法曼荼羅ほうまんだら dharma mandala (in Shingon); mandala were each deity is represented by its seed syllable in Sanskrit
• 両界曼荼羅りょうかいまんだら Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas
• 軍荼利明王ぐんだりみょうおう Kundali
• 四種曼荼羅ししゅまんだら four types of mandala (in Shingon)
• 胎蔵曼荼羅たいぞうまんだら Garbhadhatu Mandala; Womb Realm Mandala; Matrix Realm Mandala
• 両部曼荼羅りょうぶまんだら Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas

Characters sharing the phonetic 余

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “도”

Other hanja with radical 艸