素材

Chinese

		plain; element	material
simp. and trad. (素材)		素	材

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sùcái

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³ coi⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sò͘-châi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sùcái
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sùcái
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴-tsʻai²
    • Yale: sù-tsái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suhtsair
    • Palladius: суцай (sucaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sou³ coi⁴
    • Yale: sou chòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sou³ tsoi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sou³ coi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³ t͡sʰɔːi̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sò͘-châi
    • Tâi-lô: sòo-tsâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sorzaai
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sai²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sai²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sai¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sai²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sai²³/

Noun

素材

1. source material (for works of art, literature, etc.)

Synonyms

• 本事 (běnshì)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
素	材
そ Grade: 5	ざい Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

素 (そ, so: “element”) + 材 (ざい, zai: “material”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そざい [sòzáí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [so̞za̠i]

Noun

素(そ)材(ざい) • (sozai) 

1. material for making something such as food, web page, art,
2. material for writing a document

Synonyms

• (making something): 原料(げんりょう) (genryō), 材料(ざいりょう) (zairyō)

References

• “素材”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025