态

Translingual

simpl.		态
trad.		態

Etymology

Simplified from 態 (能 → 太).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 太 + semantic 心 (“heart”) – one’s heart-felt attitude.

Han character

态 (radical 61 心+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大戈心 (KIP))

1. manner, bearing, attitude

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 379, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2273, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6001

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Cantonese

Hanzi

态 (traditional 態, Yale taai3)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

态 (traditional 態, pinyin tài (tai4), Wade-Giles t'ai⁴)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 09:03