Character Details
| too much, very | Ascii: 29992 | w218 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 太 | tài | tye | 4 | 大 (big) + 丶 (dot) → too; very | 太 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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This is an overly plump large guy with sweat drops coming off of him. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - This compound comprises 'big' and a stroke under the character, suggesting something even bigger. It also means 'extremely' or 'excessively'. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - It was too hot | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 38 - 大 | dà | big | big | large person shape | 大 天 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 大 (big) + 丶 (dot) → too; very | 大 (semantic) | 丶 (phonetic) | phonetic from 丶 | ||||||||