挞 (tà): to whip; to flog (literary, bou…

Meanings

1 to whip; to flog (literary, bound form)
2 (loanword, colloq. read tǎ) tart (pastry, e.g. egg tart)

Characters

挞

tà

to whip; (loan) tart

Examples

鞭挞罪恶。

Biāntà zuì'è.

To lash out at evil.

我最爱吃葡式蛋挞。

Wǒ zuì ài chī Pú-shì dàntà.

I love Portuguese egg tarts the most.

Tips

usage

挞 has two lives: as a literary verb meaning 'to whip/flog' it appears almost only in compounds like 鞭挞 (biāntà, to lash) or 挞伐 (tàfá, to attack). As a loanword for 'tart' (pastry) it's read colloquially as tǎ — 蛋挞 (dàntǎ) = egg tart.