だい
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
Kanji used
pedestal
Pitch accent
Top 2200
Used in vocabulary (186 in total)
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
bed; couch
Examples (32 in total)
Two trucks bumped together.
We have three televisions in our house.
How many cars are there in the United States?
How many cars does Alex have?
How many cars has that company bought?
Dozens of cars were parked in the parking lot.
The firm has bought some new cars.
Some cars have solar panels on the roof.
Nowadays, almost every home has one or two televisions.
Tell me which of the two cameras is the better one.
You have three cars, don't you?
I have three computers.
You should compare the two motorcycles.
The room is furnished with two beds.
The school is equipped with four computers.
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing.
Five fire engines rushed to the scene of the fire.
Mr Young has no less than six cars.
The two buses resemble each other at first glance.
He has a large house and two cars.
There are 5 computers in the house, but 2 of them are useless.
This factory can turn out 200 cars a day.
He is rich enough to buy two cars.
Felipe has two cars and one motorcycle.
This firm manufactures cars at the rate of two hundred per day.
My father's factory turns out 30,000 cars each month.
Two airplanes, one large and one small, were at rest in the hangar.
One of her three cars is blue and the others are red.
This factory's productive capacity is 250 cars a week.
Car production in that year reached a record 10 million vehicles.
Tom told me that he sells about 300 cars a year.
He has two cars; one is a Benz and the other is a Porsche.