台 (臺) tái
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tái
measure word
unit
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: Traditional: 臺; measure word for 1. performances and 2. electrical appliances, such as computers, televisions, machines, and instruments (ABC 1 'tái' 台 mw; NCCED 3 '台'; Unihan '台') -
tái
proper noun
Taiwan
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography , Concept: Province 省
Notes: Traditional: 台; abbreviation for 台湾 (ABC 1 'tái' n 台 4; NCCED 1 '台' 10) -
tái
noun
desk; platform; terrace
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Traditional: 檯 (ABC 2 'tái' 台 n; NCCED 1 '台' 2) -
tái
noun
platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; desk
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Traditional: 臺 (ABC 1 tái 台 n 1; Kroll 2015 '臺' 1; NCCED 1 '台' 2) -
tái
noun
typhoon
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature , Concept: Weather 天气
Notes: Traditional: 颱; as part of the word 台风 (ABC 4 tái 台; NCCED 2 '台') -
tái
noun
desk; platform; terrace
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Traditional: 台 (ABC 1 tái 台 n 2; Kroll 2015 '台' 2; NCCED 1 '台' 5) -
yí
pronoun
you
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditional: 台; first person pronoun used in preclassical Chinese (ABC 3 tái 台 pronoun; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 76; NCCED 1 '台' 8). -
tái
noun
station; broadcasting station
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Media
Notes: Traditional: 臺 (ABC 1 tái 台 n 3; NCCED 1 '台' 6) -
tái
noun
official post
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Government
Notes: Traditional: 臺 (Kroll 2015 '臺' 4; NCCED 1 '台' 7) -
yí
adjective
eminent
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditional: 台 (Kroll 2015 '台') -
tái
noun
elevated
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditional: 臺; used to describe a tower-like object (Kroll 2015 '臺' 2) -
tái
noun
tribunal
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditional: 臺; used as a suffix for state managed organizations in historic times (Kroll 2015 '臺' 3) -
tái
noun
capitulum
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditional: 臺; a flower head (Kroll 2015 '臺' 4)
Contained in
- 返台(返臺) to return to Taiwan
- 台倭(臺倭) Jap lover
- 电视台(電視臺) television station
- 工作台(工作檯) workbench; work station
- 下台(下臺) to step down from the stage; to step down from an official post
- 弹珠台(彈珠檯) pinball
- 中央广播电台(中央廣播電臺) Radio Taiwan International (RTI)
- 台妹 local girl
- 洗脸台(洗臉臺) commode; dressing table; sink
- 臬台(臬臺) provincial judge (in imperial China)
- 地台 floor; platform
- 台布(檯布) tablecloth
- 棱台(稜臺) prism
- 歌台 getai
- 台巴子 Taiwanese yokel (derog.)
- 台甫(臺甫) (polite) courtesy name
- 台面呢(臺面呢) baize; felt (especially billiards table cover)
- 港台(港臺) Hong Kong and Taiwan
- 观星台(觀星台) astronomical observatory
- 拳击台(拳擊臺) boxing ring
- 台独(台獨) Taiwan independence
- 台伯河 Tiber (river in Italy, the main watercourse of Rome)
- 台球(檯球) billiards
- 询问台(詢問台) information desk
- 台湾黄山雀(臺灣黃山雀) yellow tit (Machlolophus holsti)
- 台菜 Taiwanese food
- 梁山伯与祝英台(梁山伯與祝英台) The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai ; The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
- 访台(訪臺) to visit Taiwan
- 台矶(臺磯) a stone stairway
- 上不了台面(上不了檯面) better kept under the table; not to be disclosed; too inferior to show in public
- 瑶台之偃蹇(瑤臺之偃蹇) the towering jade terrace
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