HSK 5 · Family

太太 tàitai “wife” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 太太 means

  1. wife
  2. Mrs
  3. madam
  4. married woman

Measure word 个 gè or 位 wèi · 一个太太 yí ge tàitai

How to say 太太

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale太tài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own太taineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

太太 in a sentence

  1. 你太太怎么样？

    Nǐ tàitai zěnmeyàng?

    How’s your wife?

    Sentence #512173 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我太太很容易就会着凉。

    Wǒ tàitai hěn róngyì jiù huì zháoliáng.

    My wife catches colds easily.

    Sentence #465001 from Tatoeba

  3. 史密斯太太是我们的英语老师。

    Shǐmìsī tàitai shì wǒmen de Yīngyǔ lǎoshī.

    Mrs Smith is our English teacher.

    Sentence #858010 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 太太 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 太 (tài) with each of its parts in a different colour
太tàihighest
  • 大big · dà
  • 丶dot · zhǔ

Memory aidBig 大 with one more dot: even bigger, too much.

The character 太 (tài) with each of its parts in a different colour
太taihighest
  • 大big · dà
  • 丶dot · zhǔ

Memory aidBig 大 with one more dot: even bigger, too much.

How to write 太太

太 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

太太 (tàitai) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 太太 (tàitai). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 太太

Words with 太

太tài · too太阳tàiyáng · the sun太极拳tàijíquán · tai chi (taijiquan)太空tàikōng · outer space

More words: People, Body & Health

人生rénshēng · life (one’s time on earth)人物rénwù · figure身份shēnfèn · identity双方shuāngfāng · both sides外公wàigōng · grandpa (mother’s father)吻wěn · kiss兄弟xiōngdì · brothers英雄yīngxióng · hero

FAQs

太太 (tàitai) means “wife” or “Mrs”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tàitai: tài with a 4th tone, then tai with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 太太 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè) or 位 (wèi). For example, one wife is 一个太太 (yí ge tàitai).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type taitai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 太太 from the suggestions. Typing taitai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
太太 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.