zāi

to weed grass

Evolution

菑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
菑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

zāi

to weed grass; land which has been under cultivation for one year

 

field recently opened for cultivation; surname Zi

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zāi

old variant of |[zāi]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7038th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83D1

Shuowen

“葘,不耕田地。从艸、甾。《易》曰:‘不葘,畬。’甾,葘或省艸。”


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