台 (tái) means Platform (stage - desk). Below are 10 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
房间里有一 台 电脑。
Fángjiān lǐ yǒu yì tái diànnǎo.
There is a computer in the room.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 台
他买了一 台 新电视。
Tā mǎi le yì tái xīn diànshì.
He bought a new television.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 台
请到前 台 取包裹。
Qǐng dào qiántái qǔ bāoguǒ.
Please collect the parcel at the front desk.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 取
他在 台 上说话很自然。
Tā zài tái shàng shuō huà hěn zìrán.
He speaks very naturally on stage.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 自然
From the graded readers
台 下有人笑了。
tái xià yǒurén xiào le / liǎo / liào.
Someone in the audience laughed.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
那天晚上，我一个人在阳 台 上坐着。
nà / nèi tiān wǎnshang, wǒ yīgè rén zài yángtái shàng zuòzhe.
That evening I sat on the balcony on my own.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
我走上 台 ，看着下面那么多张脸，脑子忽然一片空白。
wǒ zǒushang tái, kànzhe xiàmian nàme duō zhāng liǎn, nǎozi hūrán yīpiàn kòngbái.
I walked on stage, looked at all those faces, and my mind went blank.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
重要的是我知道了：紧张不可怕，可怕的是因为紧张就不上 台 。
zhòngyào de / dì shì wǒ zhīdào le / liǎo / liào: jǐnzhāng bùkě pà, kěpà de / dì shì yīnwèi jǐnzhāng jiù bù shàngtái.
What mattered was learning that nerves aren't the problem — not going on stage because of them is.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
From the travel phrasebook
这 台 机器坏了。
Zhè tái jīqì huài le.
This machine is broken.
Travel phrasebook · Paying and mobile payment
Words that contain 台
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 台
How is 台 used in a sentence?
This page shows 10 sentences using 台 (tái, "Platform (stage - desk)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 台 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 台 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 台 an HSK word?
Yes — 台 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 台?
The dictionary page for 台 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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