沱 (tuó): (of rain or tears) pouring down

Meanings

大雨滂沱，人们四处躲雨。

Dàyǔ pāngtuó, rénmen sìchù duǒyǔ.

The rain came pouring down, and people ran for cover everywhere.

沱江是四川长江上游的重要支流。

Tuójiāng shì Sìchuān Chángjiāng shàngyóu de zhòngyào zhīliú.

The Tuo River is a major tributary of the upper Yangtze in Sichuan.

usage

沱 mostly appears in 滂沱 (rain or tears coming down heavily). It also names a river branch, as in 沱江 (the Tuo River in Sichuan).

radical

氵 sāndiǎnshuǐ

water (radical form)

Left-side three-drop water radical, the side form of 水. It signals water, fitting both the pouring-rain sense and the river-branch sense of 沱.

phonetic

它 tā

it (here phonetic)

Right side 它 is the phonetic element; the sound has drifted from tā to tuó, so read it as a sound hint rather than an exact match.

沱 tuó