台 · tái
platform; unit; term of address
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
platform; unit; term of address
- Mandarin
- tái
- Cantonese
- toi4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 台 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 태
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+53F0
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 2
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 台
Character connections
Follow this component
History & distinctions
Related forms
檯 · 臺 · 颱
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yi · 與之 反切 · #187
- Middle Chinese
- thoj · 土來 反切 · #393
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1555 · yi = 止開三平之以 · thoj = 蟹開一平咍透
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tái
- kCantonese
- toi4
- kDefinition
- platform; unit; term of address
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 30.2
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+53F0 U+6AAF U+81FA U+98B1
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+53F0
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:342
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yí,tái,sì 10575.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tāi 1108.010 · tái 1108.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tāi 356.090 · tái 356.120,356.130,356.140,356.150
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- tái(530)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tái粵toi4 tāi粵toi4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 與之 土來
- Kangxi positions
- 0172.130
- Guangyun positions
- 059.15 100.45
- GSR references
- 0976p
- Cangjie
- IR
- Four-corner
- 2360.0