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材

材

See also: 村

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 材

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (才) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
茬 *zraː, *zraːʔ, *ʔsrɯ, *zrɯ
材 *zlɯː
才 *zlɯː, *zlɯːs
財 *zlɯː
鼒 *zlɯː, *ʔslɯ
在 *zlɯːʔ, *zlɯːs
豺 *zrɯː

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 材
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 昨哉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zəi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zəj/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cái
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 材
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cái
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤə/
English timber

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 材
Reading # 1/1
No. 1060
Phonetic
component		 才
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 裁
Old
Chinese		 /*zlɯː/

Definitions

材

  1. material, stuff
  2. timber
  3. talent

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

材

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

材 ‎(hiragana ざい, romaji zai)

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

材 (tài)

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