材

Translingual

Han character

材 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木竹 (DDH), four-corner 4490₀)

1. material, stuff
2. timber
3. talent

References

• KangXi: page 511, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14463
• Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6750

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Cantonese

Hanzi

材 (Yale choi4)

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Japanese

Kanji

材 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ざい (zai)
• Kun: まるた (maruta)

Compounds

教材 (きょうざい, kyōzai, “teaching materials”)

Noun

材 (hiragana ざい, romaji zai)

1. wood
2. raw material
3. talent, genius

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

材 (pinyin cái (cai2), Wade-Giles ts'ai²)

Compounds

• 材料

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Vietnamese

Han character

材 (tài)