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獺

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

獭

🇨🇳

otter

HSK 10

Nature →Animals →Mammals

tǎ

ダツ、タツ

うそ、かわ、かわうそ

달, 찰

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

獺

Regular

Modern

Chinese

獭 / 獺 [tǎ]

otter; Taiwan pr. [tà]

Japanese

川獺、獺、河獺かわうそ、うそ、おそ、だつ、カワウソ同音

noun

usually kana otter (Lutra lutra)
usually kana Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (4)

水獭 [shuǐtǎ] #13,924

海獭 [hǎitǎ] #32,329

旱獭 [hàntǎ] #42,647

树獭 [shùtǎ]

sloth (family Bradypodidae)

JAPANESE WORDS (8)

川獺 [かわうそ] #86,373

otter (Lutra lutra)

獺祭 [だっさい] #123,695

arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry

海獺 [らっこ] #212,364

sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

ユーラシア川獺 [ユーラシアかわうそ]

European otter (Lutra lutra)

大獺 [オオカワウソ]

giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

小爪川獺 [こつめかわうそ]

Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea)

日本川獺 [にほんかわうそ]

Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

獺魚を祭る [かわうそうおをまつる]

one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)