酞 · tài
phthalein
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
phthalein
- Mandarin
- tài
- Cantonese
- taai3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+915E
- Radical
- 酉 · 164
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 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 酞
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- thajH · 他蓋 反切 · #2421
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13941 · thajH = 蟹開一去泰透
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
- tài
- kCantonese
- taai3
- kDefinition
- phthalein
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 164.4
- kTGH
- 2013:4786
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tài 63575.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tài 1112.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tài 357.110
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tài粵taai3