Chinese Character Wiki
台

tái

platform

Originally 台 and 㠯 were pronounced the same and thus written the same. Later 口 was added to distinguish the characters.

Components
口 distinguishing component

口  Distinguishing component

kǒu

  

mouth

㠯 sound,remnant component

㠯  Sound Remnant component

yǐ

  

by means of

㠯 is an ancient variant of 以.

Evolution

台 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
台 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

台  

tái

platform; unit; term of address; (classical) you (in letters); variant of 臺|台[tái]

台  

Tái

Taiwan (abbr.); surname Tai

台 (檯) 

tái

table; desk; counter

台 (臺) 

tái

tower, lookout; stage, platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines

台 (颱) 

tái

typhoon

Most common words with 台
Freq.
Word
Meaning

台

stage

舞台

stage

台湾

Taiwan

平台

platform

台上

on stage

Component uses

Sound component in 24 characters (5 verified)

治 始 颱 抬 胎 怡 怠 苔 殆 貽 贻 詒 诒 迨 笞 飴 饴 跆 邰 炱 眙 骀 鲐 绐

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lə

yi

yí

I, me


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 59.2183% of movies

500th most common character in movies

388th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Simplified

台

Traditional

台檯臺颱

Unicode

U+53F0

Shuowen

“台，說也。从口，聲。”


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