太康

Chinese

		too (much); very; extremely too (much); very; extremely; highest; greatest	peaceful; spongy (of radishes)
trad. (太康)		太	康
simp. #(太康)		太	康

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tàikāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³ hong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tàikāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ ㄎㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tàikang
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻai⁴-kʻang¹
    • Yale: Tài-kāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Taykang
    • Palladius: Тайкан (Tajkan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taai³ hong¹
    • Yale: taai hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taai³ hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tai³ hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːi̯³³ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: thajH khang

Rime
Character	太	康
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	他蓋切	苦岡切
Baxter	thajH	khang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰajH/	/kʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑiH/	/kʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tài	kāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taai3	hong1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤa[t]-s  [kʰ]ˤaŋ|k-r̥ˤaŋ|r̥ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰaːds  kʰlaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	太	康	康	康
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tài	kāng	kāng	tāng
Middle Chinese	‹ thajH ›	‹ khang ›	‹ khang ›	‹ thang ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁa[t]-s/	/*[kʰ]ˁaŋ/	/*k-r̥ˁaŋ/	/*r̥ˁaŋ/
English	great	empty	tranquil; at ease	name of first Shang ruler
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	太	康
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1937	3981
Phonetic component	大	庚
Rime group	祭	陽
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	泰	康
Old Chinese	/*tʰaːds/	/*kʰlaːŋ/

Etymology 1

Proper noun

太康

1. (Chinese mythology) Tai Kang (third king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

   Synonym: 康 (Kāng)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

太康

1. (historical) Chinese era name from the reign of Emperor Wu of Jin (280–289) or Emperor Daozong of Liao (1075–1084)

Etymology 3

Named after Xia dynasty king 太康.

Proper noun

太康

1. (～縣) Taikang (a county of Zhoukou, Henan, China)

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English TACAN.

Noun

太康

1. (Taiwan, military, aviation) TACAN