tāi
unborn child
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤə | thoj | tāi | fetus |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.3657% of movies
1376th most common character in movies
1984th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+80CE |
Shuowen | “胎，婦孕三月也。从肉，台聲。” |
Sources
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