荼

meaning for 荼 tú:

• - thistle
• - common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
• - bitter (taste)
• - cruel
• - flowering grass in profusionlike wildfire (idiom)
• - unstoppabletorment
• - cruelty
• - great sufferingto torment the people (idiom)mandala (loan, Buddhism)to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom)
• - to share the hard life of the common people