noun #47,650

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Meanings

  1. 1 otter

Examples

Shuǐtǎ shēnghuó zài shuǐbiān, hěn huì yóuyǒng.
Otters live by the water and are excellent swimmers.
Hǎitǎ xǐhuan yǎng tǎng zhe jìnshí.
Sea otters like to float on their backs while eating.

Tips

culture
Seen in 水獭 (shuǐtǎ, river otter) and 海獭 (hǎitǎ, sea otter). The phrase 獭祭 (tǎjì), from the idea that otters lay out their fish like offerings, mocks writing that piles up quotations and references.

Components

radical
fǎnquǎnpáng
beast; animal
The side beast radical (a left form of , dog) marks this as a four-legged mammal, here the otter.
phonetic
lài
to rely on (phonetic)
(lài, to rely on) sits on the right as the sound element, its reading shifted to tǎ. It contributes only the pronunciation here.

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