Kana: だい

counter for machines

Example sentence

家にテレビが二台あります。

いえにてれびがにだいあります。

There are two TVs at home.

What 台 means

(だい) is a Japanese word meaning “counter for machines”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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