塔图

塔圖

Tǎtú

proper noun #34,228

Meanings

1 Tatu / Tartu (transliteration; commonly the Russian girl-pop duo t.A.T.u., or the city of Tartu in Estonia)

Characters

tower (phonetic 'ta')

picture (phonetic 'tu')

Examples

塔图是俄罗斯一支著名的女子组合。

Tǎtú shì Éluósī yì zhī zhùmíng de nǚzǐ zǔhé.

t.A.T.u. was a famous Russian girl group.

他们的代表作是《我看到的我妈所看到的》。

Tāmen de dàibiǎozuò shì 《 Wǒ kàndào de wǒ mā suǒ kàndào de 》.

Their signature song is 'All The Things She Said'.

Tips

culture

塔图 most commonly transliterates the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. (Тату), whose 2002 hit 'All The Things She Said' was a global sensation and made them widely known in Chinese pop culture. 塔图 can also refer to Tartu, Estonia's second city, though that usage is rarer in subtitle corpora.

memory

塔 (tǎ, 'tower' / phonetic 'ta') + 图 (tú, 'picture' / phonetic 'tu') = 'Ta-tu'. The 'tower' character also makes this a fitting transliteration for any 'tat' or 'tar' sound start.

Stroke Order

塔 tǎ

图 tú