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灯塔 (dēng tǎ): meaning and stroke order

灯塔 (dēng tǎ) means lighthouse, CL:座.

灯塔

Simplified
灯塔
Traditional
燈塔
Pinyin
dēng tǎ

Stroke order of 灯塔

灯

  • dēng lamp; light
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 燈

Stroke by stroke

塔

  • tǎ pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
  • tǎ old variant of 塔[ta3]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 墖

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 灯塔

  1. dēng tǎ Traditional 燈塔
    • lighthouse
    • CL:座[zuo4]

Radicals of the characters

灯
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 6 strokes · 火 on the left, 丁 on the right
塔
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 12 strokes · 土 on the left, 荅 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

灯塔 in our stories

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  • 当然，日志是船长自己写的，不能完全相信。于是她又去查了灯塔的天气记录，那天晚上同样是“无风无浪”。

    dāngrán rìzhì shì chuánzhǎng zìjǐ xiě de bù néng wánquán xiāngxìn yúshì tā yòu qù chá le dēngtǎ de tiānqì jìlù nà tiān wǎnshang tóngyàng shì wú fēng wú làng

    Of course, the captain had written the log himself, so it couldn't be fully trusted. So she checked the lighthouse's weather records as well; that night was likewise "no wind, no waves".

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 灯塔

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).