塔 — pagoda, tower, steeple

とう塔 pagoda

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+5854 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1708 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #270 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

pagoda
tower
steeple

word

とう tou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

塔(とう) tou tower

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つち土 earth #32

荅 small bean

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#32 土 earth