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哉

zāi

Character

What 哉 means

1. (exclamatory or interrogative particle)

Example sentences

• 悲哉失败者!
  Bēi zāi shībàizhě!
  Woe to the vanquished.

Words containing 哉

• 善哉shàn zāiexcellent
• 圣哉经shèng zāi jīngSanctus (section of Catholic mass)
• 呜呼哀哉wū hū āi zāialas; all is lost
• 幸甚至哉xìng shèn zhì zāifilled with joy (quotation from poems by Cao Cao 曹操
• 悠哉悠哉yōu zāi yōu zāifree and unconstrained (idiom); leisurely and carefree
• 悠哉yōu zāisee 悠哉悠哉
• 优哉游哉yōu zāi yóu zāisee 悠哉悠哉
• 悠哉游哉yōu zāi yóu zāisee 悠哉悠哉

Characters built on 土

These share the phonetic component 土 (tǔ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at…
• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 裁cáito cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim
• 埃āidust; dirt; angstrom
• 戴dàito put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear
• 埋máito bury
• 栽zāito plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb
• 埭dàidam

Characters that look like 哉

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 战zhànto fight; fight; war
• 孩hái(bound form) child
• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两
• 残cánto destroy; to spoil; to ruin
• 栽zāito plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)

Sounds the same

Read zāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 灾disaster; calamity
• 栽to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb
• 甾steroid nucleus