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Chinese Vocabulary

塌

to collapse

塌
tā1st tone
Pinyin
tā
Strokes
13
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 塌

塌 is written with 13 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

很多楼塌了 = a lot of buildings collapsed.

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塌 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake in western Colombia brought down buildings; a buried man's first words were: 'There's a baby with me.'塌 spoken at natural speedmedium
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