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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木竹 (DDH), four-corner 44900, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 511, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14463
  • Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6750

Chinese

simp. and trad.

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

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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cái
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz]ˤə/
English timber

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. 1060
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zlɯː/

Definitions

  1. material, stuff
  2. timber
  3. talent

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana ざい, romaji zai)

  1. wood
  2. raw material
  3. talent, genius

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tài)

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