哉

See also: 或

哉	U+54C9, 哉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C9

← 哈
[U+54C8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

哊 →
[U+54CA]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		哉

Glyph origin

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, OC *ʔslɯː) : semantic 口 + phonetic 𢦏 (OC *ʔslɯː).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zāi (zai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi¹
Min Nan (POJ): chai

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄞ
  - Wade–Giles: tsai¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzai
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡saɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zoi¹
  - Yale: jōi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zoi¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːy̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chai
  - Tâi-lô: tsai
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zay
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡saɪ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡saɪ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saɪ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡saɪ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡saɪ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʌi/▼

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
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

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

哉

^† An exclamatory particle.

Compounds

何哉
何足道哉
優哉游哉／优哉游哉
哀哉
哉生明

哉生魄
唐哉皇哉
善哉
嗚呼哀哉／呜呼哀哉
得其所哉

怪哉 (guàizāi)
悠哉 (yōuzāi)
悠哉悠哉 (yōuzāiyōuzāi)
於呼哀哉／于呼哀哉
郁哉

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): chài

Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chài
  - Tâi-lô: tsài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zaix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡saɪ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡saɪ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saɪ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡saɪ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡saɪ²¹/

Definitions

哉

(Min Nan) Only used in 佳哉.

Compounds

佳哉

好佳哉

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)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

哉 (tai, tơi)

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