zài
again
Depicts catching two (二) fish at once, conveying the meaning "again". The fish component is similar to the bottom half of 冓.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤə(ʔ)-s | tsojH | zài | twice; a second time |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.7918% of movies
102nd most common character in movies
242nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+518D |
Shuowen | “再,一舉而二也。从冓省。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.315-316
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