台

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Counter 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Min Nan 6.1 Hanzi 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character 7.1.1 Readings 7.1.2 References

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 㠯 + semantic 口 (“‘mouth’”), to say

[edit] Han character

台 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈口 (IR), four-corner 2360₀, composition ⿱厶口)

1. platform
2. unit
3. term of address

[edit] Descendants

• 胎, 殆, 怡, 怠, 治, 冶, 始, 笞, 枲, 枱, 眙, 詒, 咍, 齝, 飴, 貽, 瓵, 紿, 鮐, 邰, 佁, 駘, 炱

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 172, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3246
• Dae Jaweon: page 384, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 575, character 2
• Unihan data for U+53F0

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

台 (traditional 臺, jyutping ji4, toi4, Yale yi4, toi4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

台 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: だい (dai), たい (tai), い (i)
• Kun: うてな (utena), よろこぶ (yorokobu)

[edit] Compounds

• 仙台 (せんだい, sendai)
• 台所　(だいどころ, daidokoro)

[edit] Counter

台 (hiragana だい, romaji dai)

1. counter for machines and vehicles

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

台 (hangeul 태, 이, revised tae, i, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, i)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

台 (traditional 臺, pinyin tāi (tai1), tái (tai2), yí (yi2), Wade-Giles t'ai¹, t'ai², i²)

[edit] Compounds

• 茅台酒
• 台湾

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

台 (POJ tâi)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

台 (di, đài,thai)

[edit] Readings

• Nôm: di,đài,đày,hai,hay, thai, thài,thay, thơi

[edit] References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999