薹 — Chinese character
薹
tái
sedge, grass; Cyperus rotundus
- Pinyin
- tái
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 艹 臺
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 臺
- Japanese
- 薹 as a kanji
Common words with 薹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 紫菜薹 | zǐ cài tái | purple choy sum (Brassica rapa var. purpurea) |
| 蒜薹 | suàn tái | garlic shoots (cookery) |
| 芸薹 (蕓薹) | yún tái | (botany) rape (Brassica rapa) |
| 芸薹子 (蕓薹子) | yún tái zǐ | rapeseed; seed of the rape plant |
| 芸薹属 (蕓薹屬) | yún tái shǔ | genus Brassica (including broccoli, cabbage, rapeseed etc) |
| 薹草 | tái cǎo | sedge |
| 薹草属 (薹草屬) | tái cǎo shǔ | genus Carex |
English words written with 薹
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.