zāi
final exclamatory particle
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 哉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(exclamatory or interrogative particle) | ||
excellent | ||
free and unconstrained (idiom) | ||
alas | ||
free and unconstrained (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤə | tsoj | zāi | begin |
*[ts]ˤə | tsoj | zāi | (particle) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2758th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54C9 |
Shuowen | “哉，言之閒也。从口，聲。” |
Sources
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