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-台

台

台 U+53F0, 台
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F0
← 可
[U+53EF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叱 →
[U+53F1]
See also: 臺, 檯, 颱, and 枱

Translingual

Stroke order

Simplified from 臺, 颱 and 檯

  • Simplified from 臺 (臺 → 台)
  • Simplified from 檯 (elimination of 木 and 臺 → 台)
  • Simplified from 颱 (elimination of 風)

Han character

台 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈口 (IR), four-corner 23600, composition ⿱厶口)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 172, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3246
  • Dae Jaweon: page 384, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 575, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+53F0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (台) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
胎 *l̥ʰɯː
台 *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
邰 *l̥ʰɯː
鮐 *l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
孡 *l̥ʰɯː
苔 *l'ɯː
抬 *l'ɯː
駘 *l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
炱 *l'ɯː
菭 *l'ɯː, *l'i
跆 *l'ɯː
殆 *l'ɯːʔ
怠 *l'ɯːʔ
迨 *l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
詒 *l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
軩 *l'ɯːʔ
咍 *hlɯː
佁 *lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
枲 *slɯʔ
辝 *ljɯ
鈶 *ljɯʔ
笞 *l̥ʰɯ
齝 *l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
眙 *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
治 *l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
始 *hljɯʔ
怡 *lɯ
貽 *lɯ
飴 *lɯ
瓵 *lɯ
珆 *li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ) : phonetic 㠯 + semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 台 – see 臺.
(This character, 台, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 臺.)
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 台 – see 颱.
(This character, 台, is the simplified form of 颱.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 台 – see 檯.
(This character, 台, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 檯.)
Notes:

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.
 台

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 台
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨ/
Li
Rong		 /iə/
Wang
Li		 /jĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 台
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yi ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lə/
English I, me

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 台
Reading # 4/4
No. 12298
Phonetic
component		 台
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 飴
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯ/
Notes 後作怡本從以聲

Definitions

台

  1. †Original form of 怡 (yí, “happy, pleased”).
  2. †I, me
  3. †what
  4. A surname​.

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.
 台

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 台
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土來切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰəj/
Li
Rong		 /tʰᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tāi
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 台
Reading # 1/4
No. 12260
Phonetic
component		 台
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 胎
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰɯː/
Notes 本從以聲

Definitions

台

  1. Used in place names.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

台

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 臺)

  1. pedestal
  2. a stand
  3. counter for machines and vehicles
  4. Taiwan

Readings

Compounds

  • 仙台 (せんだい, sendai)
  • 台所 (だいどころ, daidokoro)

Counter

台 ‎(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. machines, especially vehicles or computers

Suffix

台 ‎(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. tables, beds
  2. level, especially of price
  3. period of time in a person's life

Korean

Hanja

台 • ‎(tae, i, dae) (hangeul 태, 이, 대, revised tae, i, dae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, i, dae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

台 (thai, đài, di, đày, thay, thơi, hai, hay, thài)

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

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