荼

thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion

surname Yu

(archaic) I / me / variant of 餘|余[yu2], surplus

grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

like wildfire (idiom) / unstoppable

torment / cruelty / great suffering

(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) mandala

to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people

to torment the people (idiom)

flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law

Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages)