台 (tái)
measure word for machines/platform/Taiwan
How 台 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 厶 — private
- Traditional
- 台
- Simplified
- 台 (unchanged)
Components
- 厶 private
- 口 mouth
Common words using 台
- 台灣 táiwān
- variant of 臺灣|台湾[Tai2 wan1]
- 平臺 píngtái
- platform; terrace; flat-roofed building
- 舞臺 wǔtái
- stage; arena; fig. in the limelight
- 上台 shàngtái
- to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
- 下臺 xiàtái
- to go off the stage; to fall from position of prestige; to step down (from office etc)
- 出臺 chūtái
- to officially launch (a policy, program etc); to appear on stage; to appear publicly
- 前臺 qiántái
- front platform; front of theatrical stage; foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.)
- 台下 táixià
- off the stage; in the audience
- 台中 táizhōng
- Taizhong or Taichung city and county in central Taiwan
- 台北 táiběi
- Taibei or Taipei, capital of Taiwan
- 台山 táishān
- Taishan county level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong
- 台州 táizhōu
- Taizhou prefecture level city in Zhejiang
台 in a sentence
這台電腦太貴了，我買不起。
Zhè tái diànnǎo tài guì le, wǒ mǎi bù qǐ.
“This computer is too expensive; I can't afford it.”
How common is 台?
台 is the 388th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 70.3% of all running text.
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