Onyomi: タ, タイ · Kunyomi: ふと.い, ふと.る · Meanings: big around, plump, thick
Kanji for big around, plump, thick
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太 shows a person with something extra added to them. In ancient forms, it represented a body with an additional line to emphasize size. That extra mark symbolized something big, thick, or excessive. From this image, 太 came to mean big, thick, or very.
太 represents something made bigger by adding extra weight or size.
Picture a person with an extra line showing they have become very big. That sense of bigness is 太.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 太 | ふと | fat, fatty | Noun, used as a prefix, Noun |
| 太陽 | たいよう | Sun | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 太い | ふとい | fat, thick | common JLPT-N5 I-adjective (keiyoushi) |
| 太鼓 | たいこ | drum | common JLPT-N2 Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 太る | ふとる | to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout | common JLPT-N4 Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 太平洋 | たいへいよう | Pacific Ocean | common Noun |
| 大西洋 | たいせいよう | Atlantic Ocean | common Noun |
| 太陽系 | たいようけい | solar system | common Noun |
| 太陽電池 | たいようでんち | solar cell | common Noun |
| 太古 | たいこ | ancient times, prehistoric times | Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |