IDENTITY
太tàitoo; very
HSK 1Top 150
CORE MEANING
too; very
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.too; excessivelyHSK1
- 2.very (grand)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 大big radical (dà)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- overlay compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿵大丶
- big
- the extra dot
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
太阳tàiyángsun
太太tàitaiMrs.; wife
Graded examples
今天太阳很好。Jīntiān tàiyáng hěn hǎo.HSK1
The sun is bright today.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Big (大) with a dot (丶) of excess — too much. (From 泰, grand.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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