駄
駄 — ta, tae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 실을 타, 실을 태
- Romanization
- ta, tae
- English
- a horse load; a pack-horse
- Mandarin
- tuó
- Japanese on'yomi
- ダ, タ, タイ, ダイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- のせる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,500 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 馬 (187, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+99C4
Parts that make up 駄
How 駄 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 駄 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 馬, 太.
Japanese words with 駄
- 無駄むだ futility; waste; uselessness
- 無駄遣いむだづかい waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
- 駄目だめ no good; not serving its purpose; useless
- 駄菓子だがし penny candy; cheap individually wrapped sweets
- 下駄げた geta; traditional Japanese wooden sandal; turn (in set-type proofing)
- 駄菓子屋だがしや small-time candy store; penny candy store
- 駄だ poor; low-grade; trivial
- 一駄いちだ horse load
- 荷駄にだ pack; horseload
- 足駄あしだ high clogs; rain clogs
- 駄犬だけん mongrel; cur; mutt
- 駄作ださく poor piece of work; rubbish; trash
Other hanja read “타”
Other hanja with radical 馬
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