in English

tāo
big wave / Taiwan pr. [tao2]

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 濤, the traditional character: 涛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Oracle bone script: 濤 Oracle bone script
  • Small seal script: 濤 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 普京对胡锦涛说:“咱们必须帮吉尔吉斯斯坦”。。。不过那只是在我梦里的情形。

    "We need to help Kyrgyzstan," said Putin to Hu Jintao... in my dream.

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