泰
Meanings
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- 1.safe
- 2.peaceful
- 3.most
- 4.grand
- 1.Mt Tai 泰山[Tài Shān] in Shandong
- 2.abbr. for Thailand
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Wiktionary
- 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.a surname
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Etymology
Originally a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tʰaːds): phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) + semantic 水 (“water”). A more conservative variant is 𡙌. The 大 and 廾 later fused into 𡗗. The 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 ", 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. As a result of the changed meaning, it may have been reinterpreted as an Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 大 (“big; great”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) + semantic 水 (“water”). Same word as 太 (OC *tʰaːds, “great; greatest; excessive”); both are derived from 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
否極泰來。
After a storm comes a calm.
倫敦在泰唔士河旁。
London is on the Thames.
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Derived terms
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