泰

Mandarin · pinyin tài#

Meanings · tài

  1. safe
  2. peaceful
  3. most
  4. grand
Mandarin · pinyin Tài#

Meanings · Tài

  1. Mt Tai 泰山 Tài Shān in Shandong
  2. abbr. for Thailand
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泰
tài · great, exalted, superior; big; hexagram ䷊
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4 · tai4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

taai3

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character

  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. (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 泰國/泰国 (Tàiguó, “Thailand”)
  10. a surname

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