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阳台

yáng tái

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 陽臺

阳台 (yáng tái) means "balcony". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 阳台 means

1. balcony
2. porch

Other readings

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

• yáng táivariant of {阳台|yáng tái}

The characters in 阳台

• 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 我在阳台上。
  I'm on the balcony.
• 你在阳台上做什么？
  Nǐ zài yángtái shàng zuò shénme?
  What are you doing on the balcony?
• 我在阳台上吃的早饭。
  Wǒ zài yángtái shàng chī de zǎofàn.
  I ate breakfast on my balcony.
• 一家人在阳台上吃早饭。
  Yījiārén zài yángtái shàng chī zǎofàn.
  The family is eating breakfast on the balcony.
• 去阳台上晒晒太阳怎么样？
  Why don't you go out on the balcony and get some sun?
• 齐莉将花儿放在了阳台的栏杆上。
  Ziri placed flowers on the balcony railing.

Where 阳台 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Traditional Arts & Social Events (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yáng tái correctly.
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