滔滔

滔滔

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tāotāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠ ㄊㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou¹ tou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tāotāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ ㄊㄠ
    • 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

1. (of water) overflowingly
2. (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

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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)

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