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再-

U+518D, 再
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518D

[U+518C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+518E]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 13 +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一土月 (MGB), four-corner 10447, composition)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 129, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1524
  • Dae Jaweon: page 290, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 18, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+518D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsɯːs
*ʔsɯːʔ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sai⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sai⁵³/
/t͡sai²⁴/ ~見
Tianjin /tai⁵³/
/t͡sai⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡sai³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sai⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡sɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sai²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sai³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sai¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sai²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sæ²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sae⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡se̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sæ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡se³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵¹/
Hangzhou /t͡se̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡se⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sə²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sai⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɔi²³/
Nanning /t͡sɔi³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sɔi¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sai²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡suɛ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sai³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡səiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡səjH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zài
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ˤə(ʔ)-s/
English twice; a second time

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsɯːs/

Definitions

  1. again; re-
       zàiwán   play again
       zàiféng   meet again
  2. to continue to

See also

  • (again): (yòu)

Compounds

  • 再三 (zàisān)
  • 再不
  • 再不然
  • 再世
  • 再也
  • 再出口
  • 再則再则
  • 再加上
  • 再婚 (zàihūn)
  • 再嫁
  • 再審再审

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. again
  2. twice
  3. second time

Readings

Compounds

Prefix

(hiragana さい, romaji sai-)

  1. re-, again, repeated

Korean

Hanja

(jae) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer chae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tái, táy, tải)

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