泰

泰 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手大水 (QKE), four-corner 5013₂, composition ⿱𡗗氺)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17325
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1577, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CF0

Historical forms of the character 泰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰaːds) : phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big; great”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) + semantic 水 (“water”). A more conservative variant is 𡙌. The 大 and 廾 later fused into 𡗗. Its original meaning according to Shuowen Jiezi was "to slip", perhaps with a reference to seize something wet or to seize a liquid with bare hands. Then it became "too <much>", which was written either as 太 or 𡙌 > 泰 or as its variant 冭, perhaps due to the influence of its pronunciation and/or the top component of the character, which has a reference to a great quantity (hence it adds part of the meaning).

Same word as 太 (OC *tʰaːds, “great; greatest; excessive”); both are derived from 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds, “big”).

泰

1. big; large
2. great; extensive
3. extreme; greatest
4. exalted; honourable; superior
5. good; excellent
6. safe; peaceful; stable
7. excessively; overly
8. 11th hexagram of the I Ching
9. Short for 泰國／泰国 (Tàiguó, “Thailand”).
10. a surname

(Jōyō kanji)

1. peaceful, calm
2. Thailand

• On (unclassified): たい (tai, Jōyō)
• Kun: やすい (yasui, 泰い)、おおきい (ōkii)、おごる (ogoru, 泰る)

泰(やすし) • (Yasushi) 

1. a male given name

泰 • (tae) (hangeul 태)

1. Tai (ethnic group)
2. Thai

• 泰拳
• 泰然
• 泰山
• 泰國

泰: Hán Nôm readings: Thái

1. Tai (ethnic group)
2. Thai; Thailand