Meaning & readings
womb, uterus
On’yomi タイ
Origin
This character combines the flesh radical 月 (which marks body-related words) on the left with 台 on the right, which serves as a sound hint suggesting the pronunciation "tai." The flesh radical signals that this character refers to a part of the body, while 台 provides a rough guide to how the word sounds when spoken. Together, these components create a character whose meaning—the womb where a fetus develops—is indicated by the body classifier, with the sound component helping speakers recognize the word's pronunciation.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 9
- Kangxi radical
- 130
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1861 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+080CE