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天台

tiān tái

2-character word Traditional 天臺

What 天台 means

1. rooftop

Other readings

天台 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Tiān tāiMt Tiantai near Shaoxing 绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗; Tiantai count

The characters in 天台

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 那座大厦天台的景色很美的，想去看看吗？
  Nà zuò dàshà Tiāntāi de jǐngsè hěn Měidí, xiǎng qù kànkan ma?
  There's a great view from the rooftop of that building. Want to go see?

Words starting with 天台

• 天台山Tiān tāi ShānMt Tiantai near Shaoxing 绍兴
• 天台宗Tiān tái zōngTiantai school of Buddhism
• 天台县Tiān tāi XiànTiantai, a county in Taizhou City 台州市

Words containing 天台

• 司天台sī tiān táiObservatory or Bureau of Astronomy (official title) from the Tang dynasty onwards