Kanji1 / 5
台 kanji
pedestal, a stand, counter for machines and vehicles
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ダイタイ
Kun readings
うてなわれつかさ
Variant forms
坮臺Words with 台
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —仙台虫喰eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus)
- —溶岩台地lava plateau
- —九品蓮台nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land
- —天台神道Tendai Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto; form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)
- —航空灯台aeronautical beacon
- —木びき台sawhorse; sawbuck
- —帳台構えornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite)
- —腰掛け台bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on
- —霊台方寸heart; soul
- —台替わりa rise above a certain level (of a stock price, etc.)
- —首切り台executioner's block
- —撮影台本shooting script (film, television); continuity
- —等脚台形isosceles trapezoid; isosceles trapezium
- —台所事情financial situation
- —手洗い台wash stand; wash basin; sink
- —水切り台drainboard; draining board
- —テレビ台TV stand; TV table; TV unit
- —足のせ台footstool; footrest
- —尼御台所minister or general's wife who became a nun
- —鋸挽き台sawhorse; sawbuck