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
- —縁台bench
- —架台stand; frame; abutment
- —尊台you
- —台下your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour)
- —台形trapezium; trapezoid
- —台座pedestal
- —台紙backing paper (for a photo, painting, etc.); mat; mount
- —台場fort; battery
- —台尻butt of a gun
- —台数number of large objects such as cars, computers, etc.
- —台石stone pedestal
- —台木stock (in grafting); wood used as a platform (or base, etc.); block (i.e. chopping block); (gun) stock; unworked block of wood
- —台輪architrave
- —天台Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
- —島台ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
- —番台attendant's booth (in a bathhouse changing room); door-keeper's stand; watcher's seat
- —貴台honorific used in company correspondence
- —車台chassis; car body
- —燭台candlestick; candlestand
- —鎮台garrison (in Meiji era)