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HSK 1 - Easy
4 strokes
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tài

Definition

  1. too (much)
    水太热.
    The water is too hot.
  2. extremely
    这个学校太大了。
    This school is so big!
  3. very
    她很漂亮。
    She is very pretty.
  4. excessively
    太贵了!
    This is excessively expensive. This is too expensive
  5. over (in the sense of excessively)

Other uses of

is also used to express admiration or an exclamation. is then placed at the end of the sentence.

太好了
Excellent!

Or, the other way around, can also be used to emphasize negation. It is then placed before :

不好
It's very bad

Read more about the grammar uses of 太 in this short and sweet lesson .

Character Decomposition

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