泰

See also: 奉, 奏, and 秦

泰 U+6CF0, 泰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CF0 ← 泯 [U+6CEF] CJK Unified Ideographs 泱 → [U+6CF1]

Translingual

Han character

泰 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手大水 (QKE), four-corner 5013₂, composition ⿱𡗗氺)

References

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

Chinese

trad.		泰
simp. #		泰
2nd round simp.		太
alternative forms		冭 夳 𡙌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰaːds): phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big; great”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) + semantic 水 (“water”). The 大 and 廾 later fused into 𡗗.

Etymology

Same word as 太 (OC *tʰaːds, “great; greatest; excessive”); both are derived from 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tài (tai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thai

  (Meixian, Guangdong): tai⁴

• Min Bei (KCR): tuo̿i
• Min Dong (BUC): tái
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): thòa / thài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tai³

• Wu (Wiktionary): ²tha

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tài
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tài
    • Wade–Giles: tʻai⁴
    • Yale: tài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tay
    • Palladius: тай (taj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taai³
    • Yale: taai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai
    • Hakka Romanization System: tai
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰaɪ⁵³/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: tuo̿i
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰuɛ³³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: tái
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑi²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thòa / thài
    • Tâi-lô: thuà / thài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toax, taix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰua²¹/, /tʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua⁴¹/, /tʰai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰua²¹/, /tʰai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰua¹¹/, /tʰai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰua²¹/, /tʰai²¹/

Note:

• thoà - vernacular;
• thài - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: tai³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thài
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰai²¹³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: ²tha
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰa̱³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 泰
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰai⁵¹/
	Harbin	/tʰai⁵³/
	Tianjin	/tʰai⁵³/
	Jinan	/tʰɛ²¹/
	Qingdao	/tʰɛ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰai³¹²/
	Xi'an	/tʰai⁴⁴/
	Xining	/tʰɛ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/tʰɛ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰɛ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/tʰai²¹³/
	Wuhan	/tʰai³⁵/
	Chengdu	/tʰai¹³/
	Guiyang	/tʰai²¹³/
	Kunming	/tʰæ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/tʰae⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/tʰe̞⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰai⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/tʰæ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/tʰɛ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/tʰa³⁵/
	Suzhou	/tʰɑ⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/tʰe̞⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/tʰa⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰa³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/tʰa⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/tʰai⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/tʰai⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰai²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰai⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/tʰɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰai³³/
	Nanning	/tʰai³³/
	Hong Kong	/tʰai³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/tʰai²¹/ /tʰua²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/tʰɑi²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/tʰuɛ³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tʰai²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hai³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /tʰɑiH/

Rime
Character	泰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他蓋切
Baxter	thajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑiH/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰajH/
Li Rong	/tʰɑiH/
Wang Li	/tʰɑiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤa[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰaːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tài
Middle Chinese	‹ thajH ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁa[t]-s/
English	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	泰
Reading #	1/1
No.	12313
Phonetic component	泰
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	泰
Old Chinese	/*tʰaːds/

Definitions

泰

1. big; large
2. great; extensive
3. extreme; greatest
4. exalted; honourable; superior
5. good; excellent
6. safe; peaceful; stable
7. excessively; overly
8. 11th hexagram of the I Ching
9. Short for 泰國／泰国 (Tàiguó, “Thailand”).
10. a surname

Compounds

Derived terms from 泰

• 交泰
• 人猿泰山
• 倒持泰阿
• 去泰去甚
• 去甚去泰
• 否泰
• 天地交泰
• 奢泰
• 宇文泰
• 安如泰山 (ānrútàishān)
• 安泰 (āntài)
• 安若泰山
• 富泰 (fùtài)
• 康泰 (kāngtài)
• 心安神泰
• 持盈保泰
• 政躬康泰
• 景泰 (Jǐngtài)
• 死重泰山
• 泰一 (tàiyī)
• 泰交
• 泰伯
• 泰元
• 泰初
• 泰勒制度
• 泰北 (Tàiběi)
• 泰半 (tàibàn)
• 泰南 (Tàinán)
• 泰坦族
• 泰始
• 泰安 (Tài'ān)
• 泰定
• 泰山 (Tàishān)
• 泰山之安
• 泰山刻石
• 泰山可倚
• 泰山娘娘

• 泰山磐石
• 泰州 (Tàizhōu)
• 泰常
• 泰平
• 泰拳 (tàiquán)
• 泰昌 (Tàichāng)
• 泰晤士河 (Tàiwùshì Hé)
• 泰武 (Tàiwǔ)
• 泰水
• 泰清
• 泰然 (tàirán)
• 泰然居之
• 泰然自若 (tàiránzìruò)
• 泰皇
• 泰系各族
• 泰西 (Tàixī)
• 泰誓
• 泰豫
• 泰辰
• 泰阿
• 泰阿倒持
• 泰雅族 (tàiyǎzú)
• 身名俱泰
• 通泰
• 泰山北斗 (tàishānběidǒu)
• 泰山梁木
• 泰斗 (tàidǒu)
• 三陽交泰／三阳交泰
• 三陽開泰／三阳开泰
• 不識泰山／不识泰山
• 否去泰來／否去泰来
• 否往泰來／否往泰来
• 否極必泰／否极必泰
• 否極泰來／否极泰来 (pǐjítàilái)
• 否極生泰／否极生泰
• 否終而泰／否终而泰
• 國泰民安／国泰民安 (guótàimín'ān)

• 安於泰山／安于泰山
• 托爾斯泰／托尔斯泰 (Tuō'ěrsītài)
• 時通運泰／时通运泰
• 景泰藍／景泰蓝 (jǐngtàilán)
• 民安國泰／民安国泰
• 泰來否往／泰来否往
• 泰國／泰国 (Tàiguó)
• 泰國勞工／泰国劳工
• 泰國拳／泰国拳
• 泰國新娘／泰国新娘
• 泰壇／泰坛
• 泰山其頹／泰山其颓
• 泰山壓卵／泰山压卵
• 泰山壓頂／泰山压顶
• 泰山若厲／泰山若厉
• 泰山鴻毛／泰山鸿毛
• 泰戈爾／泰戈尔 (Tàigē'ěr)
• 泰極而否／泰极而否
• 泰然處之／泰然处之 (tàiránchǔzhī)
• 泰王國／泰王国 (Tàiwángguó)
• 泰納／泰纳
• 泰綺絲／泰绮丝
• 泰語／泰语 (tàiyǔ)
• 泰階／泰阶
• 泰階平／泰阶平
• 發跡變泰／发迹变泰
• 穩如泰山／稳如泰山 (wěnrútàishān)
• 華倫泰節／华伦泰节
• 處之泰然／处之泰然
• 變泰／变泰
• 鄂爾泰／鄂尔泰
• 重於泰山／重于泰山 (zhòng yú Tàishān)
• 長泰／长泰 (Chángtài)
• 開泰／开泰
• 阿爾泰山／阿尔泰山 (Ā'ěrtài Shān)
• 鴻毛泰山／鸿毛泰山

Japanese

Kanji

泰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. peaceful, calm
2. Thailand

Readings

• On (unclassified): たい (tai, Jōyō)
• Kun: やすい (yasui, 泰い); おおきい (ōkii); おごる (ogoru, 泰る)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
泰
たい Grade: S
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 泰 – see the following entry.

【タイ】 [proper noun] Thailand

(This term, 泰, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

泰(やすし) • (Yasushi) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

泰 • (tae) (hangeul 태)

1. Tai (ethnic group)
2. Thai

Compounds

• 泰拳
• 泰然
• 泰山
• 泰國

Vietnamese

Han character

泰: Hán Nôm readings: Thái

1. Tai (ethnic group)
2. Thai; Thailand