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再-

再

再 U+518D, 再
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518D
← 册
[U+518C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冎 →
[U+518E]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

再 (radical 13 冂+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一土月 (MGB), four-corner 10447, composition ⿱一冉)

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.
 再

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 再
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 再
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 作代切
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 再
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 再
Reading # 1/1
No. 16511
Phonetic
component		 再
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 載
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsɯːs/

Definitions

再

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

See also

  • (again): 又 (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

再

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. again
  2. twice
  3. second time

Readings

Compounds

Prefix

再 ‎(hiragana さい, romaji sai-)

  1. re-, again, repeated

Korean

Hanja

再 • ‎(jae) (hangeul 재, McCune-Reischauer chae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

再 (tái, táy, tải)

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