態

See also: 态 and 熊

Translingual

simpl.		态
trad.		態

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 能 + semantic 心 (“heart”) – one’s heart-felt attitude.

Han character

態 (radical 61 心+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP), four-corner 2133₁)

1. manner, bearing, attitude

Descendants

• 态

References

• KangXi: page 398, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11052
• Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2335, character 7
• Unihan data for U+614B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

態 (simplified 态, Jyutping taai3, Yale taai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

態

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: たい (tai)
• Kun: さま (sama), わざと (wazato)

Noun

態 (hiragana たい, romaji tai)

1. (grammar) voice - a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

Suffix

態 (hiragana たい, romaji -tai)

1. (grammar) voice, diathesis

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

態 (simplified 态, Pinyin huǎng (huang3), tài (tai4), Wade-Giles huang³, t'ai⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

態 (thái, thói)