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太 kanji
plump, thick, big around
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
タイタ
Kun readings
ふといふとる
Words with 太
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —太陽鳥sunbird (any bird in the family Nectariniidae)
- —太陽潮solar tide (tides caused by the Sun)
- —太陰潮lunar tide (tide caused by the Moon)
- —太陽蝶sunset morpho (butterfly, Morpho hecuba)
- —太食調taishiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
- —太平州Oceania
- —太陽儀heliometer
- —太陽鏡helioscope
- —太陽柱sun pillar; solar pillar
- —皇太孫eldest grandson of an Emperor in the line of descent
- —太白星Venus (planet)
- —太白飴white rice jelly
- —太陽族dissolute postwar youths
- —組太鼓ensemble taiko drumming
- —太極旗Taegukgi; national flag of South Korea
- —鬼太鼓demon drums; type of drumming performance done to ward off ogres
- —太極図taijitu; cosmic dual forces symbol; yin-yang symbol
- —釣太鼓tsuri-daiko; large hanging drum used for bugaku and gagaku performances
- —銭太鼓zenidaiko; hollow bamboo baton with coins strung on the inside, used as a folk percussion instrument
- —豊太閤Toyotomi Hideyoshi