漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
態: attitude, condition
Also: figure, appearance, voice (of verbs)
JLPT N114 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
心 carries the meaning · 能 gives the sound
14 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 態度たいどattitude, behavior, manner
- 態勢たいせいconditions, preparations
- 状態じょうたいcondition, state
- 実態じったいtrue condition
- 重態じゅうたいserious condition
- 事態じたいstate of affairs
- 生態系せいたいけいecosystem
Also read わざと, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)能 (sound) + 心 heart (meaning)
One’s heart-felt attitude.
Source: Wiktionary, 態 (rev. 93443945), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side態 attitude · 心
vs熊 bear · 灬In ChineseSimplified 态 · traditional, as in Japanese · tài
Japan keeps the traditional form 態; mainland China simplifies it to 态.
- Simplified
- 态 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 態 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tài most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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