ทาง ออก
“ทาง ออก” (таанг оок) — departure gate in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "way out". At the airport this is both the boarding gate and a plain exit — the gate number stands beside it on the board. In a live sentence: “ทาง ออก อยู่ ที่ไหน” — Where is the departure gate? Written with the characters ท, า, ง, อ, อ, ก. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ทาง ออก |
| Read in Latin letters | таанг оок |
| Translation | departure gate |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "way out". At the airport this is both the boarding gate and a plain exit — the gate number stands beside it on the board
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ทาง ออก อยู่ ที่ไหนтаанг оок ю тинайWhere is the departure gate?
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “departure gate” in Thai?
«ทาง ออก», read “таанг оок”. In a live sentence: “ทาง ออก อยู่ ที่ไหน” — Where is the departure gate? Noun, level A2; written with the characters ท, า, ง, อ, อ, ก.
How is “ทาง ออก” written in Latin letters?
таанг оок. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "way out". At the airport this is both the boarding gate and a plain exit — the gate number stands beside it on the board. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.