太
tài
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Too, excessively; in exclamations also 'so, really'. It goes before an adjective, and the sentence usually ends with 了: 太大了 'too big', 太好了! 'great!'. 不太 softens a negative: 不太好 'not very good'.
Phó từ chỉ mức độ: quá, quá mức; giống “quá” trong tiếng Việt, nó cũng dùng trong câu cảm thán. Đứng trước tính từ, cuối câu thường có 了: 太大了 (to quá, quá to), 太好了! (hay quá! tốt quá!). 不太 là “không… lắm”: 不太好 (không tốt lắm).
AdverbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “太” mean?
Too, excessively; in exclamations also 'so, really'. It goes before an adjective, and the sentence usually ends with 了: 太大了 'too big', 太好了! 'great!'. 不太 softens a negative: 不太好 'not very good'.
Is “太” formal or informal?
太 is generally neutral.