哉

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 + phonetic 𢦔

Han character

哉 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十戈口 (JIR), four-corner 4365₀, composition ⿹𢦏口)

1. final exclamatory particle

References

• KangXi: page 189, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3596
• Dae Jaweon: page 408, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 611, character 7
• Unihan data for U+54C9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

哉 (jyutping zoi1, Yale joi1)

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Japanese

Kanji

哉

Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: かな (kana), や (ya)

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Korean

Hanja

哉 (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

哉 (pinyin dēi (dei1), zāi (zai1), Wade-Giles tei¹, tsai¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哉 (tai, tơi)