tài

very

Addition of a dot to (dà; big) to mean "very" or "extremely".

Components
大 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

dài

  

big

Evolution

太 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
太 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
太 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tài

very, too, much; big; extreme; highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely

Most common words with 太
Freq.
Word
Meaning

highest

太阳

sun

太太

Mrs.

太空

outer space

犹太人

Jew

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤa[t]-s

thajH

tài

great


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.3112% of movies

94th most common character in movies

240th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+592A

Shuowen

“泰,滑也。从廾,从水,大聲。夳,古文泰。”


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