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
- —実験台laboratory testing bench; laboratory table; subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig
- —流し台sink; washstand
- —証人台witness stand or box
- —灯台守lighthouse keeper
- —運転台driver's seat
- —発射台launching pad
- —手術台operating table
- —調理台kitchen table; kitchen counter; working surface
- —処刑台scaffold; gallows
- —稽古台training partner; training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)
- —拷問台rack (torture device)
- —踏み台stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; stepping stone
- —青瓦台Blue House (official residence of the president of South Korea); Cheong Wa Dae
- —洗面台washbasin; washstand
- —継ぎ台stool (stood on to reach high objects); stock (in grafting)
- —台布巾table-wiping cloth
- —海食台abrasion platform
- —釣り台fishing stand; small portable stand that can be assembled quickly; stand used to transport people or things (Edo period)
- —涼み台outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)
- —角錐台truncated pyramid