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

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.800
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