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泰

泰

See also: 奉, 奏, and 秦

Translingual

Han character

泰 (radical 85 水+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手大水 (QKE), four-corner 50132)

References

  • KangXi: page 618, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17325
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1577, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6CF0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泰
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰaːds) : semantic 廾 + semantic 水 + phonetic 大 ‎(OC *daːds, *daːds). Current form is instead 𡗗 + 水.

Etymology

Same word as 太 (OC *tʰaːds, “great; greatest; excessive”); both are derived from 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 泰
Mandarin Beijing /tʰai⁵¹/
Harbin /tʰai⁵³/
Tianjin /tʰai⁵³/
Jinan /tʰɛ²¹/
Qingdao /tʰɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tʰai³¹²/
Xi'an /tʰai⁴⁴/
Xining /tʰɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /tʰɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /tʰɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /tʰai²¹³/
Wuhan /tʰai³⁵/
Chengdu /tʰai¹³/
Guiyang /tʰai²¹³/
Kunming /tʰæ²¹²/
Nanjing /tʰae⁴⁴/
Hefei /tʰe̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tʰæ³⁵/
Hohhot /tʰɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /tʰa³⁵/
Suzhou /tʰɑ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /tʰe̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /tʰa⁴²/
Hui Shexian /tʰa³²⁴/
Tunxi /tʰa⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /tʰai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /tʰai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /tʰai²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /tʰai⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰai³³/
Nanning /tʰai³³/
Hong Kong /tʰai³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tʰai²¹/
/tʰua²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tʰɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tʰuɛ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tʰai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hai³⁵/
Rime
Character 泰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 泰 (25)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他蓋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰajH/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑiH/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thajH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤa[t]-s/
English great

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 泰
Reading # 1/1
No. 12313
Phonetic
component		 泰
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 泰
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰaːds/

Definitions

泰

  1. big; large
  2. great; extensive
  3. extreme; greatest
  4. exalted; honourable; superior
  5. good; excellent
  6. safe; peaceful; stable
  7. excessively; overly
  8. 11th hexagram of the I Ching
  9. Short for 泰國／泰国 (Tàiguó, “Thailand”).
  10. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

泰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. peaceful, calm
  2. Thailand

Readings

Proper noun

泰 ‎(hiragana やすし, romaji Yasushi)

  1. A male given name

泰 ‎(hiragana たい, katakana タイ, romaji Tai)

  1. Thailand

Korean

Hanja

泰 • ‎(tae) (hangeul 태, revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

泰 (thái)

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