哉

See also: 或

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 哉
Spring and Autumn
Bronze inscriptions

Characters in the same phonetic series (𢦏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
𢦏	*ʔslɯː
栽	*ʔslɯː, *zlɯːs
哉	*ʔslɯː
烖	*ʔslɯː
載	*ʔslɯːʔ, *ʔslɯːs, *zlɯːs
渽	*ʔsɯː
睵	*ʔsɯː, *sʰɯː
溨	*zɯː
裁	*zlɯː, *zlɯːs
酨	*l'ɯːs, *zlɯːs
蛓	*sʰles, *sʰɯs
胾	*ʔsrɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslɯː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 𢦏 (OC *ʔslɯː).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zāi (zai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chai

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zai
    • Wade–Giles: tsai¹
    • Yale: dzāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzai
    • Palladius: цзай (czaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoi¹
    • Yale: jōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zoi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chai
    • Tâi-lô: tsai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zay
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sai³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sai⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsoj

Rime
Character	哉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	祖才切
Baxter	tsoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡səi/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səj/
Li Rong	/t͡sᴀi/
Wang Li	/t͡sɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	哉	哉
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zāi	zāi
Middle Chinese	‹ tsoj ›	‹ tsoj ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁə/	/*[ts]ˁə/
English	begin	(particle)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哉
Reading #	1/1
No.	16490
Phonetic component	
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	烖
Old Chinese	/*ʔslɯː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 哉

1. ^† An exclamatory particle.

See also

• 兮 (xī)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chài

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chài
    • Tâi-lô: tsài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sai²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 哉

1. (Southern Min) Only used in 佳哉.

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Japanese

Kanji

哉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai); せ (se)
• Kan-on: さい (sai)
• Kun: かな (kana, 哉); や (ya, 哉); か (ka, 哉)
• Nanori: か (ka); すけ (suke); とし (toshi); ちか (chika); はじめ (hajime)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 哉 (tai, tơi)

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