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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塔* | 塔* | *塔
pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆, a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:) / (loanword) (pastry) tart
HSK 6
Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar (Tw)
taffeta
Valletta, capital of Malta
Natalie (name)
Qatar
lighthouse / CL:
Oriental Pearl Tower
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
basil
delta (Greek letter Δ, δ)
Oriental Pearl Television Tower
(gaming) tower defense
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS), Russian news agency
electricity pylon / transmission tower
pyramid (building or structure)
HSK 7-9
Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang
the pagoda bearing god
the Taliban, Islamist organization that emerged in the mid-1990s in Afghanistan
Tokyo Tower
eta (Greek letter Η, η)
Tarim River of Xinjiang
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿 / also written 阿爾伯塔|阿尔伯塔
tower / CL:
pagoda
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Burj Khalifa, skyscraper in Dubai, 830 m high
watchtower / observation tower
Hongta district of Yuxi city 玉溪市, Yunnan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塔* | 塔* | *塔
old variant of
HSK 6
cooling tower
Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director
gun turret
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay (in Cuba)
Yanta District of Xi’an 西安市, Shaanxi
(loanword) taco
Tarawa, capital of Kiribati
TV tower
Guantanamo, Cuba
stupa (Buddhist shrine)
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an
tabun (loanword)
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
Eiffel Tower
tower fan
tower (of building)
spire / minaret
multistory pagoda
Kentucky, US state
Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦州市|锦州市, Liaoning
Talmud
iron tower
(cuisine) basil-flavored (abbr. for 九層塔香|九层塔香) / cone-shaped incense stick
TASS / Information Telegraph Agency of Russia
multi-eaved pagoda
ivory tower
control tower
the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang
(loanword) gestalt
Famagusta (Ammochostos), Cyprus
Tarbaghatay or Tacheng city in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
serac band
Tajik ethnic group
Tasmania (Tw)
Baota or Pagoda district of Yan'an city 延安市, Shaanxi
leaning tower
Tajikistan
tapas, small Spanish snacks (loanword)
beta (Greek letter Β, β)
(loanword) taco
single-storied pagoda
Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang
spire / peak of a pagoda
tarot (loanword)
Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant
Hongta district of Yuxi city 玉溪市, Yunnan
Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an
(gaming, esp. MOBA) to recklessly enter the attack range of an enemy tower – a stationary defense structure that automatically fires on intruders – typically resulting in death / (neologism) (slang) to provoke the authorities (e.g. online) at great personal risk
Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico)
Emmentaler (cheese)
water tower
rotating turret
Kumbum Monastery in Qinghai
Brittany, area in the north-west of France
lit. many sand grains accumulate to form a tower (idiom) / fig. many little things add up to sth great
egg tart
Astana, capital of Kazakhstan
Karnataka (formerly Mysore), southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾|班加罗尔
Ørsta (city in Norway)
Tajik (person)
tower crane
(loanword) piñata
eta (Greek letter Η, η)

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