台

臺traditional

HSK 4#522 by frequencyradical 口

Tái["q","n","b"]

desk; table; counter; platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines; (classical) you (in letters); typhoon

Tái

Taiwan (abbr.); platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines

tái檯

desk; table; counter

tái颱

typhoon

tāi

used in place names

Examples

他换台了。

He changed the channel.

我有一台电脑。

I have a computer.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.