Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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才 cái only just
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#518
Chapter-28 HSK-A
3 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Ts'ai was originally written as a vertical line dividing two parallel horizontals, and meant vegetation sprouting. It came to mean force, power, talent, and is now classed under radical 手 shou hand. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
才
cái
ability/talent/sb of a certain type/a capable individual/only/only then/just now
才
纔
cái
a moment ago/just now/(indicating sth happening later than expected)/(preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until/(followed by a numerical clause) only
Phrases ending with the given character
冯馮féng
骥驥jì
才才cái
Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人