Meaning of 胎
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
tāi
- fetus
- classifier for litters (of puppies etc)
- padding (in clothing or bedding)
- womb carrying a fetus
- (fig.) origin
- source
- (loanword) tire
胎 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
来看看这些车胎。
Take a look at these tires.
你有一个死胎吗？
Have you ever had a stillbirth?
玛丽怀了双胞胎。
Mary is pregnant with twins.
他当然不可能回到娘胎里再出生一次了！
Surely he can not enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!
我的自行车的后轮爆胎了。
My bike's back tyre is flat.
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胎 tāi · fetus · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 胎.
| 双胞胎 | shuāngbāotāi | twin |
| 轮胎 | lúntāi | tire; pneumatic tire |
| 胎儿 | tāi'ér | unborn child; fetus |
| 胚胎 | pēitāi | embryo |
| 怪胎 | guàitāi | freak; abnormal embryo |
| 堕胎 | duòtāi | to induce an abortion; induced abortion |
| 投胎 | tóutāi | to be reincarnated |
| 胎记 | tāijì | birthmark |
| 车胎 | chētāi | tire |
| 爆胎 | bàotāi | (of a car, bike etc) to get a flat tire |
| 三胞胎 | sānbāotāi | triplets |
| 脱胎换骨 | tuōtāihuàngǔ | to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn ove |
Questions about 胎
What does 胎 mean?
胎 (tāi) means "fetus; classifier for litters (of puppies etc)" and is used as a noun and measure word.
How do you write 胎?
胎 is made of 1 character: 胎 (9 strokes). That is 9 strokes in total.
Is 胎 an HSK word?
Yes. 胎 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.