漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
才: genius, years old
Also: cubic shaku
JLPT N33 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
3 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
サイsai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 十八才じゅうはっさい18 years old
- 何才なんさいhow old
- 才能さいのうtalent
- 天才てんさいgenius
- 漫才まんざいcomic dialogue
- 才さい... years old; age (of) ...
- 秀才しゅうさいbright person; talented student; prodigy
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
才 gives its sound to
The family reading is ザイ (zai). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cái
Same form: 才 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 才 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 才 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cái most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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