太
tài HSK1

very

太 tài
extremely adverb
very; used for emphasis or to express a high degree, often in the '太...了 le' construction

他的中文说得太好了！

tā de Zhōng​wén shuō de tài hǎo le!

His Chinese is excellent!

too adverb
to an excessive degree

这件衣服太贵了。

zhè jiàn yī​fu tài guì le.

This piece of clothing is too expensive.

highest noun
highest in rank, seniority, or degree; greatest

在古代官职中，‘太’通常代表最高的等级。

zài gǔ​dài guān​zhí zhōng,‘tài’ tōng​cháng dài​biǎo zuì gāo de děng​jí.

In ancient official titles, 'Tai' usually signified the highest rank.

Frequency
Character
Written text
240th most common 932.7 per million
Movie subtitles
94th most common 1726.9 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1942.1 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
820.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+592A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)