Chinese Character Wiki
態

tài

manner

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 能 represents the sound.

Components
能 sound component

能  Sound component

néng

  

to be able

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

態 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
態 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

态 (態) 

tài

manner, bearing, attitude; (bound form); appearance; shape; form; state; attitude; (grammar) voice

Most common words with 態
Freq.
Word
Meaning

状态

state

态度

manner

变态

abnormal

生态

ecology

心态

mentality

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥ˤə-s

thojH

tài

bearing, manner


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 50.0400% of movies

886th most common character in movies

528th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

态

Unicode

U+614B

Shuowen

“態，意也。从心，从能。，或从人。”


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