柜台 (guì tái)

Character breakdown

• 柜 (guì) · 8 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 巨 represents the sound. Simplified form of 櫃.

• 台 (Tái) · 5 strokes

  Originally 台 and 㠯 were pronounced the same and thus written the same. Later 口 was added to distinguish the characters.