苔 — Chinese character
苔
tái
moss, lichen
- Pinyin
- tái
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 台
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 台
- Japanese
- 苔 as a kanji
Common words with 苔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苔藓 (苔蘚) | tái xiǎn | moss |
| 海苔 | hǎi tái | nori |
| 青苔 | qīng tái | moss; lichen |
| 舌苔 | shé tāi | (TCM) coating on the tongue (examined for the purpose of diagnosis) |
| 苔原 | tái yuán | tundra |
| 蒜苔 | suàn tái | variant of 蒜薹 (suàn tái) |
| 生苔 | shēng tái | mossy |
| 紫菜苔 | zǐ cài tái | variant of 紫菜薹 (zǐ cài tái) |
| 绿苔 (綠苔) | lǜ tái | green algae |
| 叶苔 (葉苔) | yè tái | liverwort (Jungermannia lanceolata) |
| 藓苔 (蘚苔) | xiǎn tái | moss |
| 西兰苔 (西蘭苔) | xī lán tái | broccolini |
English words written with 苔
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.