臺 - Dong Chinese dictionary

tái

tower, platform

Depicts a tall (高) building (室).

Components

高 Meaning Remnant component

gāo

high

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 高 than it was in ancient scripts.

室 Meaning component

shì

room

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

台 (臺)

tái

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

台 (臺)

Tái

Taiwan (abbr.)

Most common words with 臺

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	台	stage
	舞台	stage
	台湾	Taiwan
	平台	platform
	台上	on stage

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

擡

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

檯薹擡

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lˤə	doj	tái	tower

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 59.2183% of movies

500th most common character in movies

388th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Simplified	台
Unicode	U+81FA
Shuowen	“臺，觀，四方而高者。从至、从之、从高省。與室屋同意。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.830

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