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Translingual

Han character

(radical 40 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十卜廿十 (JYTJ), four-corner 30401, composition)

  1. to slaughter
  2. to rule

References

  • KangXi: page 286, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7160
  • Dae Jaweon: page 565, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 935, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5BB0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsɯːʔ
*ʔsɯːʔ, *ʔsɯːs
*ʔsɯʔ
*ʔsrɯʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡səiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡səjX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sᴀiX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zǎi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zǎi
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ˤəʔ/
English steward; minister

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. 16506
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsɯːʔ/

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

  • 主宰 (zhǔzǎi)
  • 任人宰割
  • 伴食宰相
  • 元宰
  • 冢宰
  • 出宰
  • 圓宰圆宰
  • 大冢宰
  • 太宰
  • 宰予
  • 宰制
  • 宰割 (zǎigē)
  • 宰夫
  • 宰我
  • 宰殺宰杀 (zǎishā)
  • 宰牲節宰牲节
  • 宰相 (zǎixiàng)
  • 宰衡
  • 宰輔宰辅
  • 屠宰 (túzǎi)
  • 屠宰場屠宰场 (túzǎichǎng)
  • 屠宰稅屠宰税
  • 山中宰相
  • 庖宰
  • 廊廟宰廊庙宰
  • 弄獐宰相
  • 彭澤宰彭泽宰
  • 摸稜宰相摸棱宰相
  • 敲牛宰馬敲牛宰马
  • 烹宰
  • 甌宰瓯宰
  • 當朝宰相当朝宰相
  • 真宰
  • 縣宰县宰
  • 荃宰
  • 邑宰
  • 里宰
  • 鐵血宰相铁血宰相
  • 電宰廠电宰厂
  • 電宰豬肉电宰猪肉
  • 風流宰相风流宰相

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. superintend

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tể)

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