HSK 5 · Places

阳台 yángtái “balcony” in Chinese

Traditional 陽臺

What 阳台 means

  1. balcony
  2. porch

How to say 阳台

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale阳yáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale台tái2nd tone, rising

阳台 in a sentence

  1. 你在阳台上做什么？

    Nǐ zài yángtái shàng zuò shénme?

    What are you doing on the balcony?

    Sentence #9037056 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 去阳台上晒晒太阳怎么样？

    Qù yángtái shàng shàishai tàiyáng zěnmeyàng?

    How about going out on the balcony to get some sun?

    Sentence #12283022 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我在阳台上吃的早饭。

    Wǒ zài yángtái shàng chī de zǎofàn.

    I had breakfast on the balcony.

    Sentence #9037054 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 阳台 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 阳 (yáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
阳yángpositive
  • 阝place
  • 日sun · rì
The character 台 (tái) with each of its parts in a different colour
台táiyou
  • 厶private · sī
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 阳台

阳 6 strokes · 台 5 strokes

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

Words related to 阳台

Words with 阳

太阳tàiyáng · the sun阳光yángguāng · sunshine夕阳xīyáng · setting sun

Words with 台

台tái · measure word for machines (a TV电台diàntái · radio station台阶táijiē · steps柜台guìtái · sales counter台风táifēng · typhoon

More words: Places & Geography

位置wèizhi · position卧室wòshì · bedroom屋子wūzi · house县xiàn · county北极běijí · the North Pole边疆biānjiāng · border region边界biānjiè · border边境biānjìng · border area

FAQs

阳台 (yángtái) means “balcony” or “porch”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yángtái: yáng with a 2nd tone, then tái with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 阳台 is written 陽臺. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yangtai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 阳台 from the suggestions. Typing yangtai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
阳台 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.