滔滔

Chinese

		overflow; torrent-dash	overflow; torrent-dash
simp. and trad. (滔滔)		滔	滔

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāotāo

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄠㄊㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹ tou¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tāotāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄠㄊㄠ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tautau
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou¹ tou¹
  - Yale: tōu tōu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou¹ tou¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou¹ tou¹
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰou̯⁵⁵/

Adverb

滔滔

(of water) overflowingly
(speaking) incessantly

Derived terms

滔滔不斷／滔滔不断
滔滔不盡／滔滔不尽
滔滔不竭
滔滔不絕／滔滔不绝 (tāotāobùjué)

滔滔而至
滔滔雄辯／滔滔雄辩
白浪滔滔
雄辯滔滔／雄辩滔滔

Japanese

Kanji in this term
滔	滔
とう Hyōgaiji	とう Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Alternative forms

滔々

Adjective

滔滔 (-tari inflection, hiragana とうとう, rōmaji tōtō)

torrential (of flowing water)
voluble (of speech)
flowing strongly in one direction (of a matter of the times)

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