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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

汰: washing, sieving

Also: filtering, weeding out, luxury

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 太 is drawn in

7 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

タta · on'yomi · in compounds

  • ご無沙汰ごぶさたnot writing or contacting for a while
  • 沙汰さたaffair; state; incident
  • 音沙汰おとさたnews (from someone); word; letter

Also read タイ, おごる, にごる, よなげる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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太

Also built on plump (太)

Also read タ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read タイ

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
汰 washing · 太
vs決 decide · 夬
汰 has 太 where 決 has 夬.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tài

Same form: 汰 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
汰 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
汰 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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