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泰
Mandarin · pinyin tài#
Meanings · tài
- safe
- peaceful
- most
- grand
Mandarin · pinyin Tài#
Meanings · Tài
- Mt Tai 泰山 Tài Shān in Shandong
- abbr. for Thailand
Characters in this entry
- 泰
- tài · great, exalted, superior; big; hexagram ䷊
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Mandarin tones
4 · tai4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 10 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
taai3
Cantonese word readings for 泰. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- big; large
- great; extensive
- extreme; greatest
- exalted; honourable; superior
- good; excellent
- safe; peaceful; stable
- excessively; overly
- 11th hexagram of the I Ching
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 泰國／泰国 (Tàiguó, “Thailand”)
- a surname
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