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(lit. and fig.) stage; arena
HSK 3
television station
HSK 3
to rise to power (in politics) / to go on stage (in the theater)
HSK 6
platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate) / (Tw) website
HSK 6
to officially launch (a policy, program etc) / to appear on stage / to appear publicly / (of a bar girl) to leave with a client
HSK 6
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  *台* | 台* | *台
desk; table; counter
HSK 3
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  *台* | 台* | *台
platform / stage / terrace / stand / support / station / broadcasting station / classifier for vehicles or machines
HSK 3
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  *台* | 台* | *台
typhoon
HSK 3
windowsill; window ledge
HSK 4
transmitter-receiver / broadcasting station / radio station / CL: 個|个,
HSK 3
balcony / porch
HSK 4
China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network
British Broadcasting Corporation / BBC
platform / terrace / flat-roofed building
HSK 6
China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network
HSK 3
stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground
HSK 7-9
writing desk
HSK 6
sales counter; front desk; bar / (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)
HSK 7-9
backstage area / behind-the-scenes supporter / (computing) back-end / background
HSK 7-9
front desk / reception desk
runway (for a fashion show etc); catwalk
in Taiwan (used attributively)
lookout / viewing platform / observation deck
Santai county in Mianyang 綿陽|绵阳, north Sichuan
multi-platform (computing)
Radio Taiwan International (RTI)
to go off the stage / to fall from position of prestige / to step down (from office etc) / to disentangle oneself / to get off the hook
HSK 7-9
Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗 / Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州, Zhejiang
rooftop
rostrum / platform / CL: 個|个
railway platform
(winner's) podium
table-tennis table
dressing table
counter of a bar (pub)
Wutai city and county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
Hong Kong and Taiwan
pavilion
operating desk / control panel / console
to fall from power; to collapse / downfall
checkout counter; cashier's desk
checkout counter / cashier's desk
Maotai town in Renhuai county, Guizhou
HSK 7-9
vendor's stall
China and Taiwan
Hong Kong 香港, Macao 澳門|澳门 and Taiwan 臺灣|台湾
ink stone / ink slab / CL:
Al Jazeera (Arabic news network)
to appear on the same stage
to work as a hostess in a bar or KTV
to change the channel (TV)
rotating stage / swivel table
to go to Taiwan / refers to those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949
display counter / stand / booth
Sendai, city in northeast Japan
Sendai, capital of Miyagi prefecture 宮城縣|宫城县 in northeast Japan
fort / battery
operating table
this radio station
service desk / information desk / reception desk
service desk / information desk / reception desk
workbench / work station
astronomical observatory
one China and one Taiwan (policy)
to be put on the spot / to find oneself in an awkward situation
floor / platform
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
transfer desk / correspondence desk
runway (for a fashion show etc) / catwalk
to be unable to extricate oneself gracefully / to be put on the spot / to be embarrassed
software platform
terrace / spectator's grandstand / viewing platform
HSK 7-9
signal station
Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a prominent role during the Opium Wars (1839-1860)
abutment (architecture)
office desk
observatory
to return to Taiwan
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (abbr.)
to visit Taiwan
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  *台* | 台* | *台
Taiwan (abbr.) / surname Tai
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  *台* | 台* | *台
used in place names
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  *台* | 台* | *台
(classical) you (in letters) / variant of 臺|台
HSK 3
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  *台* | 台* | *台
Taiwan (abbr.)
(theater) to dismantle the stage / (fig.) to pull the rug out from under sb's feet; to undermine sb's plans
Radio Free Asia
fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)
runway (for a fashion show etc); catwalk
Yintai District of Tongchuan City 銅川市|铜川市, Shaanxi
ink pad / stamp pad
(old) to fight on the leitai / (fig.) to enter a contest
stovetop; rangetop
Xinglongtai district of Panjin city 盤錦市|盘锦市, Liaoning
lit. a pavilion near the water (idiom); fig. using one's proximity to the powerful to obtain favor
(math.) frustum
lampstand
maotai liquor 茅臺酒|茅台酒

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