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泰

See also: 奉, 奏, and 秦
泰 U+6CF0, 泰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CF0
← 泯
[U+6CEF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泱 →
[U+6CF1]

Translingual

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Han character

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泰 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手大水 (QKE), four-corner 50132, composition ⿱𡗗氺)

References

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

Chinese

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trad. 泰
simp. # 泰
2nd round simp. 太
alternative forms 冭
夳
𡙌

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 泰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰaːds) : phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big; great”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) + semantic 水 (“water”). A more conservative variant is 𡙌. The 大 and 廾 later fused into 𡗗. Its original meaning according to Shuowen Jiezi was "to slip", perhaps with a reference to seize something wet or to seize a liquid with bare hands. Then it became "too <much>", which was written either as 太 or 𡙌 > 泰 or as its variant 冭, perhaps due to the influence of its pronunciation and/or the top component of the character, which has a reference to a great quantity (hence it adds part of the meaning).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • thoà - vernacular;
  • thài - literary.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /tʰai²¹/
/tʰua²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tʰɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰuɛ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰai²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /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
Baxter thajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰajH/
Li
Rong 		/tʰɑiH/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɑiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		taai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ thajH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ˁa[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

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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

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Japanese

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Kanji

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泰

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. peaceful, calm
  2. Thailand

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): たい (tai, Jōyō)
  • Kun: やすい (yasui, 泰い)、おおきい (ōkii)、おごる (ogoru, 泰る)

Definitions

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Kanji in this term
泰
たい
Grade: S
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 泰 – see the following entry.
【タイ】
[proper noun] Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)
(This term, 泰, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Proper noun

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泰(やすし) • (Yasushi) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

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Hanja

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泰 • (tae) (hangeul 태)

  1. Tai (ethnic group)
  2. Thai

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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泰: Hán Nôm readings: Thái

  1. Tai (ethnic group)
  2. Thai; Thailand
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