太

Descendants

 * た

Glyph origin
– excessive.

Etymology 1
A superlative derivative of – be too great, very great, excessive.

Definitions

 * 1) too; so modifying adjectives; often used with at the end of the sentence for emphasis
 * 2)  very; quite
 * 3) most; utmost
 * 4) highest; greatest
 * 5) senior; noble
 * 1) most; utmost
 * 2) highest; greatest
 * 3) senior; noble
 * 1) senior; noble

Etymology 2
See 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1)  soybean

Kanji

 * 1)  fat

Compounds

 * : jelly; prostate orgasm

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) fatness
 * 2) a fat person, a fatty
 * 3) fat-necked shamisen
 * 4) thick thread

Derived terms

 * , : Sakhalin

Prefix

 * 1) added to words describing gods or the emperor or other exalted subjects to denote greatness or excellence
 * 2) * ; text here
 * 奈加等美乃 敷刀能里⟨等其⟩等 伊比波良倍 安⟨賀⟩布伊能知毛 多我多米尓奈礼
 * 中臣の 太祝詞言 言ひ祓へ 贖ふ命も 誰がために汝れ
 * なかとみの ふとのりとごと いひはらへ あかふいのちも たがためになれ
 * Nakatomi no / futonoritogoto / iiharae / akau inochi mo / ta ga tame ni nare
 * Reciting the Nakatomi's excellent ritual offering, whose [long] life was prayed for? Yours.
 * 1) added to regular nouns to denote fatness or thickness

Etymology 2
The  of adjective.

Etymology 3
Derived from the root word.

Etymology 4
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Prefix

 * 1) big, fat, great

Usage notes

 * Only found in compounds.

Etymology 5
From a colloquial form of 太 in Middle Chinese. Compare the similar corruption in Mandarin.

Prefix

 * 1) big, fat, great

Usage notes
Only found in compounds.

Etymology 1
From. The "pollock" sense is supposedly from the surname, after a fisherman.

Etymology 2
A Korean graphic abbreviation of 🇨🇬, perhaps attested as early as the eighth century.

Presumably, it was originally used as a logogram for the native Korean word, without a Sino-Korean reading of its own. At some point—perhaps after the logogramic representation of native Korean words declined following the invention of the hangul alphabet in the 1400s—it became conflated with the visually identical character and now shares its Sino-Korean reading,.