泰
safe; peaceful; most; grand
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #703 U+6CF0
How 泰 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Water 氺 contained by a dam
components: 氺
? unknown part
How to remember it
tranquil · Heisig RSH #1231
bonsai + snowflake
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 泰 as their sound component
These characters all use 泰 (tài) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泰 sound component | tài | great, exalted, superior; calm; big |
| 傣 | dǎi | the Dai minority living in South China |
Words containing 泰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿尔泰山 | Ā ěr tài Shān | Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia |
| 国泰民安 | guó tài mín ān | the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity |
| 泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯 | Tài tè sī · Ān dé luò ní kè sī | Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚 |
| 阿尔泰语 | Ā ěr tài yǔ | Altaic language |
| 安如泰山 | ān rú Tài Shān | as secure as Mount Taishan; as solid as a rock |
| 有眼不识泰山 | yǒu yǎn bù shí Tài Shān | lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom); fig. to fail to recognize sb impor… |
| 加泰罗尼亚 | Jiā tài luó ní yà | Catalonia |
| 泰山区 | Tài shān Qū | Taishan, a district of Tai'an City 泰安市[Tai4 an1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 泰安县 | Tài ān xiàn | Tai'an county in Shandong |
| 泰安市 | Tài ān Shì | Tai'an, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3] |
| 长泰区 | Cháng tài Qū | Changtai, a district of Zhangzhou City 漳州市[Zhang1 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian |
| 斯泰西 | Sī tài xī | Stacy (name) |
| 泰米尔纳德 | Tài mǐ ěr Nà dé | Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[Qin1 nai4]; formerly Madras stat… |
| 泰米尔语 | Tài mǐ ěr yǔ | Tamil language |
| 新泰市 | Xīn tài Shì | Xintai, a county-level city in Tai'an City 泰安市[Tai4 an1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 泰日天 | tài rì tiān | (slang) toy poodle with a teddy-bear cut (humorous nickname based on a stereotype of exces… |
| 新马泰 | Xīn Mǎ Tài | Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand (abbr. for 新加坡[Xin1 jia1 po1] + 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya… |
| 阿尔泰 | Ā ěr tài | Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk |
| 泰来县 | Tài lái Xiàn | Tailai, a county in Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市|齐齐哈尔市[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 泰州市 | Tài zhōu Shì | Taizhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3] |