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

• 颱,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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Chinese

simpl.		台
trad.		台/臺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tái, yí (tai², yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˊ, ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): toi⁴, ji⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tâi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tái
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tair
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: i²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: toi⁴, ji⁴
    • Yale: tòih, yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toi⁴, ji⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːi̯²¹/, /jiː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâi
    • Tâi-lô: tâi
    • IPA (Taipei): /taɪ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taɪ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (台, reconstructed)
Character (台), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 與之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨ/	/i/	/iə/	/jɨ/	/jɨ/	/jĭə/	/ie/
Character (台), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 透 (6) Final: 咍 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 土來切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tʰʌi/	/tʰɑ̆i/	/tʰᴀi/	/tʰəi/	/tʰəj/	/tʰɒi/	/tʰɒi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (台, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
台								yí								‹ yi ›								/*lə/								I, me
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
台					12260					台					之					0					胎					/*l̥ʰɯː/					本從以聲
台					12266					台					之					0					臺					/*l'ɯː/					手冊作臺今字
台					12267					台					之					0					臺					/*l'ɯː/					臺背通作鮐
台					12298					台					之					0					飴					/*lɯ/					後作怡本從以聲

Compounds

• 茅台酒
• 台湾/台灣
• 台北
• 天台
• 平台
• 舞台

Usage notes

• Although use of the full traditional form 臺 is encouraged by the ROC Ministry of Education, the alternate form 台 is now more commonly used.

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Japanese

Kanji

台

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. pedestal
2. a stand
3. counter for machines and vehicles

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

台 (di, đài, thai)

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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