cái
wealth
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 才 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤə | dzoj | cái | wealth |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.0612% of movies
1200th most common character in movies
680th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CA1 |
Shuowen | “財,人所寶也。从貝,才聲。” |
Sources
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