太

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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 2.1.1 Compounds 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

A superlative variant of 大 ‘big’.

[edit] Han character

太 (radical 37 大+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大戈 (KI), four-corner 4003₀)

1. very, too, much
2. big
3. extreme
4. great

[edit] Descendants

• た

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 248, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5834
• Dae Jaweon: page 505, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 1
• Unihan data for U+592A

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

太 (jyutping taai3, Yale taai3)

[edit] Compounds

• 太子

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

太 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: た (ta), たい (tai)
• Kun: ふとい (futoi), はなはだ (hanahada), ふとる (futoru)

[edit] Compounds

• 太陽
• 太子
• 太郎
• 樺太 (Karafuto)
• 太刀

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

太
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 태 (revised: tae, McCune-Reischauer: t'ae)

• Name (hangeul): 클()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

太 (pinyin tài (tai4), Wade-Giles t'ai⁴)

[edit] Noun

太 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin tài)

1. Mrs, e.g. 李太 is Mrs. Li, 陳太 is Mrs. Chan
2. 太太, i.e. wife.

[edit] Compounds

• 迦太基 (Jiātàijī)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

太 (thái)