(tài) - too, excessively in Mandarin
tàiTraditional: 太
Translation
too, excessively
Word origin
太 (tài) means 'too, excessively, great'. It is the graph 大 (dà, big) with an added dot or stroke beneath, a simple indicative marking an intensified or superlative degree of 'big'.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 大 (dà, big) + an added dot marking degree
Stroke order
太
Examples
！
That's great!
。
This is too expensive.
。
You are too amazing.
。
It is too cold outside.
，。
I am too tired and want to sleep.
太 (tài) means too, excessively. It is used as a adverb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 太.
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