荼
túshūchá

bitter vegetable

荼 tú
bitter vegetable
(bound form) a bitter edible plant such as the common sowthistle; a symbol of bitterness or hardship
flowering grass
(bound form) white flowers of reeds or cogon grass, often used to describe things in great profusion as in the idiom 如火如荼 rú​huǒ​rú​tú
to maltreat
(literary) to cause suffering to; to poison the lives of people
荼 shū
jade tablet
(literary) an auspicious jade tablet held by feudal lords when being received by the emperor
leisurely
(literary) relaxed or unhurried
荼 chá
tea
(archaic) an ancient name for the tea plant

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,930th most common 3.18 per million
Movie subtitles
3,892nd most common 0.730 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.15 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+837C

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)