苔 — tae

Parts that make up 苔

How 苔 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 苔 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 艸, 台.

Korean example words with 苔

• 설태舌苔 Korean gloss: 혓바닥에 끼는 흰색이나 회색, 황갈색의 이끼 모양 물질
• 녹태綠苔 Korean gloss: 푸른 이끼.
• 벽태碧苔 Korean gloss: 푸른 이끼.
• 청태靑苔 Korean gloss: 푸른 이끼.
• 태석苔石 Korean gloss: 이끼가 낀 돌.
• 태천苔泉 Korean gloss: 이끼가 낀 샘.
• 구태舊苔 Korean gloss: 오래 묵은 이끼.
• 수태樹苔 Korean gloss: 나무에 난 이끼.
• 창태蒼苔 Korean gloss: 푸릇푸릇한 이끼.
• 태계苔階 Korean gloss: 이끼가 낀 섬돌.
• 태병苔餠 Korean gloss: 떠서 말린 파래.
• 태비苔碑 Korean gloss: 이끼가 낀 비석.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 苔

• 海苔のり nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
• 苔こけ moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
• 苔状たいじょう mossy
• 苔類こけるい bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
• 苔癬たいせん lichen
• 蘚苔せんたい moss; bryophyte
• 銭苔ゼニゴケ common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha); liverwort
• 杉苔すぎごけ haircap moss
• 舌苔ぜったい fur (on one's tongue)
• 花苔はなごけ reindeer moss
• 苔庭こけにわ moss garden
• 鷺苔さぎごけ Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)

Characters sharing the phonetic 台

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “태”

Other hanja with radical 艸