台

See also 臺

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 㠯 + semantic 口 (“mouth”), to say (the mouth 口 speaking 厶 - a polite form of address)

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

Derived characters

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

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

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Japanese

Kanji

台 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

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

Counter

台 (hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

1. machines, especially vehicles or computers

Suffix

台 (hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

1. tables, beds
2. level, especially of price
3. period of time in a person's life

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 茅台酒
• 台湾
• 台北
• 天台
• 平台
• 舞台

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Min Nan

Hanzi

台 (POJ tâi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

台 (di, đài, thai)

Readings

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

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