泰

See also: 奉, 奏, and 秦

Translingual

Etymology

Originally two stacked 大, or 士 lifted by pair of hands, current form is instead 𡗗 + 水.

Han character

泰 (radical 85 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大水 (QKE), four-corner 5013₂)

1. great, exalted, superior
2. big
3. 11th hexagram of the I Ching

References

• KangXi: page 618, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17325
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1577, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CF0

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		泰

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tài (tai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tài
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tay
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taai³
    • Yale: taai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taai³
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑːi̯³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (泰, reconstructed)
Character (泰), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 透 (6) Final: 泰 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 他蓋切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tʰɑiH/	/tʰɑiH/	/tʰɑiH/	/tʰɑiH/	/tʰajH/	/tʰɑiH/	/tʰɑiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (泰, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
泰								tài								‹ thajH ›								/*l̥ ˤa[t]-s/								great
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
泰					12313					泰					祭					1					泰					/*tʰaːds/

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Japanese

Kanji

泰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: たい (tai)
• Kun: やすい (yasui), おおきい (ookii), おごる (ogoru)

Proper noun

泰 (hiragana やすし, romaji Yasushi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

泰 (tae) (hangeul 태, revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Compounds

• 泰拳
• 泰然
• 泰山
• 泰国

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Vietnamese

Han character

泰 (thái)

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