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哉

哉

哉 U+54C9, 哉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C9
← 哈
[U+54C8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哊 →
[U+54CA]

Translingual

Han character

哉 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十戈口 (JIR), four-corner 43650, composition ⿹𢦏口)

  1. final exclamatory particle

References

  • KangXi: page 189, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3596
  • Dae Jaweon: page 408, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 611, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+54C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 哉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (𢦏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
𢦏 *ʔslɯː
栽 *ʔslɯː, *zlɯːs
哉 *ʔslɯː
烖 *ʔslɯː
載 *ʔslɯːʔ, *ʔslɯːs, *zlɯːs
渽 *ʔsɯː
睵 *ʔsɯː, *sʰɯː
溨 *zɯː
裁 *zlɯː, *zlɯːs
酨 *l'ɯːs, *zlɯːs
蛓 *sʰles, *sʰɯs
胾 *ʔsrɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔslɯː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 𢦔.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 哉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 祖才切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡səi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡səj/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zāi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 哉 哉
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zāi zāi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsoj › ‹ tsoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤə/ /*[ts]ˤə/
English begin (particle)

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 哉
Reading # 1/1
No. 16490
Phonetic
component
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 烖
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔslɯː/

Definitions

哉

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Japanese

Kanji

哉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

哉 (tai, tơi)

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