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
- —釣台fishing stand; small portable stand that can be assembled quickly; stand used to transport people or things (Edo period)
- —涼台outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)
- —輦台river palanquin; river litter (vehicle)
- —連台river palanquin; river litter (vehicle)
- —付台counter in a sushi restaurant
- —漬台counter in a sushi restaurant
- —台割draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)
- —置台stand; base; platform; holder; rest
- —台なしspoiled; spoilt; ruined; wasted (chance, etc.); messed up; destroyed; (coming to) nothing
- —接ぎ台stool (stood on to reach high objects); stock (in grafting)
- —叩き台chopping block; springboard for discussion; draft proposal; tentative plan
- —敲き台chopping block; springboard for discussion; draft proposal; tentative plan
- —物干台clothes-drying platform; place for drying laundry
- —御立台Balcony of Appearances; balcony where the imperial family appears before the public; (sports) interview platform; winner's platform; rostrum; dancing platform (in a disco)
- —反台鉋wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction
- —燈台草wartweed (Euphorbia helioscopia); sun splurge
- —高燈台tall lamp or candle stand; tall candlestick
- —ろは台free seat (e.g. a park bench)
- —木挽台sawhorse; sawbuck
- —帳台構ornamental doorway (in the raised area of a shoin-style reception suite)