胎 tāi

1. tāi noun fetus; litter
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD 1 '胎' 1; FE '胎' 1; GHDC '胎' 1; Guoyu '胎' n 1; Kroll 2015 '胎' 1, p. 440; Unihan '胎'; XHZD '胎' 1)
2. tāi measure word measure word for fetus, newborn, etc
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (CCD 1 '胎' 2; Guoyu '胎' n 2)
3. tāi noun womb
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '胎' 1a, p. 440)
4. tāi noun prototype
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of a product prototype 器物的粗胚 (Guoyu '胎' 3; Kroll 2015 '胎' 2a, p. 440)
5. tāi noun origin; root; source
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 根源 (Guoyu '胎' n 5; Kroll 2015 '胎' 2, p. 440)
6. tāi noun an automobile tire
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 轮胎 (CCD 2 '胎' 1; XHZD '胎' 1)
7. tāi verb to nourish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABCE '胎')
8. tāi noun an unprocessed molding of an object
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD 1 '胎' 4; FE '胎' 2; GHDC '胎' 2; XHZD '胎' 1)
9. tāi noun padding
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD 1 '胎' 3)
10. tāi verb to give birth; to spawn
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '胎' 3, p. 440)

Contained in

• 轮胎(輪胎) tire
• 肉眼凡胎 ignoramus
• 胎儿(胎兒) unborn child; fetus; embryo
• 受胎 to become pregnant; to conceive; impregnated; insemination
• 补胎片(補胎片) tire patch (for puncture repair)
• 胎压(胎壓) tire pressure
• 娘胎 womb
• 怀胎(懷胎) to become pregnant; to conceive; to carry a child in the womb
• 胚胎 embryo
• 备胎(備胎) spare tire; (slang) fallback guy (or girl)
• 连体双胞胎(連體雙胞胎) conjoined twins; Siamese twins
• 泥胎 clay idol
• 一胎化 practice of allowing only one child per family
• 怪胎 freak; abnormal embryo; fetus with deformity
• 内胎(內胎) inner tube (of a tire)
• 脱胎(脫胎) to be born; (fig.) to develop out of something else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) ; bodiless
• 胎生 viviparous
• 胎面 surface of tire; tread (of tire)
• 胎盘(胎盤) placenta
• 烧胎(燒胎) burnout; peel out
• 胚胎发生(胚胎發生) embryogenesis
• 乘象入胎 conception
• 畸胎瘤 teratoma
• 补胎(補胎) to repair a tire
• 胚胎学(胚胎學) embryology
• 三胞胎 triplets
• 车胎(車胎) tire
• 多胎妊娠 multiple pregnancy
• 投胎 to be reincarnated
• 胎动(胎動) fetal movement
• 胞胎 womb
• 胎粪(胎糞) meconium
• 胎记(胎記) birthmark
• 胎体(胎體) (in ceramics, lacquerware etc) the base (made of clay, metal, bamboo etc) onto which a glaze, lacquer or other decorative elements are applied
• 胎便 meconium
• 二胎 second pregnancy
• 异卵双胞胎(異卵雙胞胎) fraternal twins
• 薄胎瓷器 eggshell china
• 臀位取胎术(臀位取胎術) breech extraction
• 畸胎 freak of nature; mutant; abnormality
• 打胎 to have an abortion
• 各怀鬼胎(各懷鬼胎) each harbors his own motives
• 鬼胎 a sinister design; an ulterior motive
• 脱胎成仙(脫胎成仙) reborn as immortal
• 双胞胎(雙胞胎) twins
• 脱骨换胎(脫骨換胎) to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones; born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf
• 爆胎 flat tire; burst tire; blowout
• 绞胎(絞胎) marbled
• 滑胎 drift (car racing technique); recurrent miscarriage; habitual abortion
• 坠胎(墜胎) to have an abortion; abortion

Also contained in

脱胎换骨

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• 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 22
• 卷八十二下 方術列傳 Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 8
• 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 8
• 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
• 卷一百七十五 志第一百二十八 食貨上三 Volume 175 Treatises 128: Finance and Economics 1c History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
• 第二回 Chapter 69 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 5
• 卷三十九 Scroll 39 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
• 卷一百三十 周書21: 列傳十 王峻 慕容彥超 閻弘魯 崔周度 Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10 - Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 4
• 卷111 刑罰志七 Volume 111 Treatise 7: Criminal Punishment Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 4
• 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4

Collocations

• 刳胎 (刳胎) 刳胎殺夭 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八　本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 16
• 鹿胎 (鹿胎) 亦以鹿胎為弁 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷四十五 志第二十五: 輿服 Volume 45 Treatises 25: Carriages and Clothes — count: 16
• 祸胎 (禍胎) 福萌禍胎 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers — count: 14
• 胎养 (胎養) 陽氣胎養之時 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十五 卓魯魏劉列傳 Volume 25: Biography of Zhuo, Lu, Wei, Liu — count: 8
• 铁胎 (鐵胎) 我知侍中銀皆鐵胎 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百三十 周書21: 列傳十 王峻 慕容彥超 閻弘魯 崔周度 Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10 - Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu — count: 7
• 豹胎 (豹胎) 豹胎 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 喻老第二十一 Chapter 21: Illustrations of Laozi's's Teachings — count: 6
• 胎夭 (胎夭) 則胎夭多傷 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 6
• 胎卵 (胎卵) 胎卵之生 — Xunzi 荀子, 不苟篇第三 Chapter 3: Nothing Carelessly — count: 6
• 胎气 (胎氣) 醫稱胎氣有損 — History of Jin 金史, 卷十三　本紀第十三:　衞紹王 Volume 13 Annals 13: Wei Shaowang — count: 6
• 伤胎 (傷胎) 主遂傷胎 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷59 劉昶 蕭寶夤 蕭正表 Volume 59: Liu Chang, Xiao Baoyin, Xiao Zhengbiao — count: 5