ダイ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. stand; rack; table; bench; podium; pedestal; platform; stage
2. support; holder; rack
Counter
3. counter for machines, incl. vehicles
Noun
4. setting (e.g. in jewellery)
Counter
Noun
Suffix
5. level (e.g. price level); range (e.g. after physical units); period (of time, e.g. a decade of one's life)
Noun
6. elevated area
7. viewing platform
8. dish tray
9. meal
10. tall building; tower
Pitch accent
Top 42000
Used in vocabulary (155 in total)
plateau; tableland; eminence
foundation; base; basis; from the beginning; from the outset; by nature
mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin
architrave
(major) mark; level; barrier; 100-yen unit (stock market)
fort; battery
bed; couch
braiding stand with a circular top
pedestal
low dining table; tea table
platform truck; hand truck; trolley; (railway) truck; bogie; flatcar
laboratory testing bench; laboratory table; subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig
(playground) slide; (ship) launching platform; sliding bed
watchtower; watch tower; lookout tower
balcony
trapezium; trapezoid
Balcony of Appearances; balcony where the imperial family appears before the public; (sports) interview platform; winner's platform; dancing platform (in a disco)
chassis; car body
oblong stand for trays of food; weighing table
ornament representing the Isle of Eternal Youth
dining table; (arch.) cooked rice
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
bed; couch
one machine; one vehicle
script; libretto; scenario
(truck) load-carrying tray; (bicycle) luggage carrier; roof rack
elevation; high ground
candlestick; candlestand
viewing platform; observation deck; observation platform
Sendai (city in Miyagi)
lighthouse; old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it
(gun) battery; fort
washbasin; washstand
clock tower
workbench; work table
astronomical observatory
(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
kitchen table; kitchen counter; working surface
scaffold; gallows
sink; washstand
watch stand; watcher's seat; attendant's booth (e.g. at an onsen)
operating table
account book; ledger; register
driver's seat
launching pad
backing paper (for a photo, painting, etc.); mat; mount
practice kit; practice board; practice partner; training partner
witness stand; witness box
oval tub or tray used in fish shops
dressing table; dresser
observation platform; lookout platform
garrison (in Meiji era)
number of large objects such as cars, computers, etc.
step in a Japanese entranceway
table tennis table; ping-pong table
victory stand; winners' podium
Censorate (Later Han and Song-dynasty surveillance agency)
clothes-drying platform; place for drying laundry
Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
scaffold; gallows
examination table (at a doctor's office)
diving board
chopping block; springboard for discussion; draft proposal; tentative plan
lookout platform; viewing platform; observation tower; viewpoint; overlook
bookrest; bookholder
wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman
stand; frame; abutment
footrest; foot stool
music stand
balance beam (in gymnastics)
gas range; gas burner; gas ring; gas cooker; gas cooktop
opposing arcade machines wired together (for two-player games)
meteorological observatory
TV stand; TV table; TV unit
display stand; exhibition table
your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour)
(childbirth) delivery table; birthing table
telephone table; telephone stand
(telephone) switchboard; switchboard operator
stone pedestal
outdoor bench (placed under the eaves of a house and used for cooling off during the summer)
fishing stand; small portable stand that can be assembled quickly; stand used to transport people or things (Edo period)
rack (torture device)
stand, table or altar on which one places donated flowers
ironing board
Olympic cauldron; Olympic flame platform
pachinko machine
queen cell (of a beehive); royal cell
curtained sleeping platform in shinden-style residences (used by people of high rank)
words; one's lines
cashier's desk; counter (where you pay in a store); cash desk
test bench; test stand
table-wiping cloth
witness stand or box
music stand
bridge abutment
bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on
window-sill; window-ledge
drainboard; draining board
stand for tea bowls (tea ceremony)
wash stand; wash basin; sink
Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system)
free seat (e.g. a park bench)
footstool; footrest
training partner; training hall (esp. one made of wooden planks and used for dancing practice)
draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)
in-store video game installation (for customer trials)
platform scales; weighing platform
altar, stand or table for burning incense
pillory; stocks; gibbet
workbench; work table
(Japanese) Darby and Joan dolls
small table
marine meteorological observatory
executioner's block
a rise above a certain level (of a stock price, etc.)
neckband (of a shirt)
reviewing stand
exact center of the Garbhadhatu mandala; platform upon which the fire is lit in a stone lantern
(Chinese) television station
plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes
sawhorse; sawbuck
counter in a sushi restaurant
lotus seat (under Buddhist statues); lotus base
frustum (of a cone or pyramid)
(manufacturing) fixtures
your face
truncated cone; frustum of a cone
honorific used in company correspondence
stool (stood on to reach high objects); stock (in grafting)
abrasion platform
truncated pyramid
terminal block (electrical)
very large float used to carry taiko at festivals
wooden plane with a convex base curved in the cutting direction
copy holder; stand for holding papers during typing, etc.; glass part of a scanner, copier, etc.
chopstick rest
a fall below a certain level (of a stock price, etc.)
panoramic viewing platform
food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand; (arch.) food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer
wave-cut platform; abrasion platform; coastal bench
bicycle rollers
wheel truing stand
abutment
coppicing-like technique used with cedar trees
free stock (in grafting); compatible rootstock
observatory for astronomy, cloud-watching, etc.; astronomical expert; place where the soul is located
caterer in a red-light district
Examples (32 in total)
Two trucks bumped together.
We have three televisions in our house.
How many cars are there in the United States?