táitāi

moss

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

台 sound component

  Sound component

tái

  

platform

Evolution

苔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
苔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

tái

moss, lichen; moss

 

tāi

coating (of tongue)

Most common words with 苔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

coating (of tongue)

苔藓

moss

青苔

moss

海苔

nori

蒜苔

garlic shoots (cookery)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8329% of movies

2727th most common character in movies

3106th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82D4


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