cái
material
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 才 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
cái
material, stuff; timber; talent; material; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤə | dzoj | cái | timber |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 25.4365% of movies
1322nd most common character in movies
952nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6750 |
Shuowen | “材，木梃也。从木，才聲。” |
Sources
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