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載

zài, zǎi

to load

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 𢦔 represents the sound.

Components
𢦔 sound component

𢦔  Sound component

zāi

  

disaster, calamity

車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

Evolution

載 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
載 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
載 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

载 (載) 

zài

load; carry; transport, convey; to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously

载 (載) 

zǎi

to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zài]; year

Most common words with 載
Freq.
Word
Meaning

载

to carry

下载

to download

记载

to write down

转载

to forward (a shipment)

载体

carrier (chemistry)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤəʔ

tsojX

zǎi

year

*[m-ts]ˤəʔ-s

dzojH

zài

load on a vehicle (v.t.)

*[ts]ˤə[ʔ]-s

tsojH

zài

record (v.)

*[ts]ˤəʔ-s

tsojH

zài

be conveyed in a vehicle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.0316% of movies

1457th most common character in movies

977th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

载

Unicode

U+8F09

Shuowen

“載，乘也。从車，聲。”


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