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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月金木竹 (BCDH), four-corner 64800, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1204, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36664
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1666, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3624, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8CA1

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zraː, *zraːʔ, *ʔsrɯ, *zrɯ
*zlɯː
*zlɯː, *zlɯːs
*zlɯː
*zlɯː, *ʔslɯ
*zlɯːʔ, *zlɯːs
*zrɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlɯː) : semantic  (shell) + phonetic  (OC *zlɯː, *zlɯːs).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zəi/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zəj/
Li
Rong
/d͡zᴀi/
Wang
Li
/d͡zɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cái
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1062
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zlɯː/

Definitions

  1. wealth; valuables; riches; money

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jae) (hangeul , revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tài)

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