阳台 meaning in English

yángtái

balcony; porch

HSK 4nounTraditional 陽臺11 strokes

Meaning of 阳台

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

yángtái

balcony
porch

yángtái

variant of 陽臺|阳台[yang2 tai2]

How to use 阳台

阳台 is the everyday word for an apartment balcony, where people in China often dry clothes, keep plants, or store things. Example: 我把衣服挂在阳台上。(Wǒ bǎ yīfu guà zài yángtái shang.) I hung the clothes on the balcony.

阳 (yáng) means sun, as in 太阳 (tàiyáng), and 台 (tái) means a platform or stage, as in 舞台 (wǔtái). A 阳台 is the sunny platform sticking out of your apartment.

Common mistake: Learners sometimes write 台 as 抬 (tái, to lift), which has the same sound but adds the hand radical 扌. Also keep both syllables in second tone: yángtái, not yàngtái.

阳台 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

你nǐ在zài阳yáng台tái上shàng做zuò什shén么me？

What are you doing on the balcony?

我wǒ在zài阳yáng台tái上shàng。

I'm on the balcony.

一yī家jiā人rén在zài阳yáng台tái上shàng吃chī早zǎo饭fàn。

The family eats breakfast on the balcony.

我wǒ在zài阳yáng台tái上shàng吃chī的de早zǎo饭fàn。

I ate breakfast on my balcony.

学xué校xiào不bù给gěi开kāi空kōng调tiáo，学xué生shēng们men就jiù会huì从cóng阳yáng台tái上shàng扔rēng热rè水shuǐ瓶píng抗kàng议yì。

The school won't turn on the air conditioning, so the students are going to throw their hot water flasks off of the balcony in protest.

Stroke order for each character

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阳 yáng · the male principle · 6 strokes

台 tái · you · 5 strokes

Related words

Words that share a character with 阳台.

太阳	tàiyáng	sun; sunlight; sunshine
阳光	yángguāng	sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic
舞台	wǔtái	(lit. and fig.) stage; arena
电台	diàntái	transmitter-receiver; broadcasting station
电视台	diànshìtái	television station
台上	táishàng	on stage
台阶	táijiē	steps; flight of steps
窗台	chuāngtái	windowsill; window ledge
台风	táifēng	stage presence, poise
上台	shàngtái	to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
平台	píngtái	platform; terrace
站台	zhàntái	platform (at a railway station); (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly endorse or ca

Questions about 阳台

What does 阳台 mean?

阳台 (yángtái) means "balcony; porch" and is used as a noun.

How do you write 阳台?

阳台 is made of 2 characters: 阳 (6 strokes), 台 (5 strokes). That is 11 strokes in total.

Is 阳台 an HSK word?

Yes. 阳台 is on the HSK 4 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.

How is 阳台 written in traditional Chinese?

In traditional characters, 阳台 is written 陽臺.

How do you say 'on the balcony' in Chinese?

Say 在阳台上 (zài yángtái shang) or 在阳台 (zài yángtái). Adding 上 is very common in speech, for example 他在阳台上抽烟 (Tā zài yángtái shang chōuyān), He is smoking on the balcony.

Is 阳台 the same as a porch or terrace?

In everyday Chinese, 阳台 mostly means an apartment balcony, often enclosed with glass. A large open rooftop terrace is usually called 露台 (lùtái).