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蔡

Cài

Character

What 蔡 means

1. surname Cai

Words starting with 蔡

• 蔡元培Cài Yuán péiCai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University…
• 蔡依林Cài Yī línJolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer
• 蔡伦Cài LúnCai Lun (-121), the inventor of the papermaking process
• 蔡国强Cài Guó qiángCai Guoqiang (1957-), contemporary Chinese artist working with firework displays and…
• 蔡志忠Cài Zhì zhōngTsai Chih Chung (1948-), famous Taiwanese cartoonist specializing in retelling the…
• 蔡李佛cài lǐ fóChoy Li Fut (Chinese martial art)
• 蔡甸区Cài diàn QūCaidian, a district of Wuhan City 武汉市
• 蔡英文Cài Yīng wénTsai Ing-wen (1956–), Taiwanese DPP politician, president of the Republic of China…
• 蔡司公司Cài sī Gōng sīZeiss Company…
• 蔡东藩Cài Dōng fānCai Dongfan (1877-1945), historian and historical novelist
• 蔡襄Cài XiāngCai Xiang (1012-1067), Song calligrapher
• 蔡锷Cài ÈCai E (1882–1916), military leader who was a key figure in the establishment the National…
• 蔡甸Cài diànsee 蔡甸区

Words containing 蔡

• 上蔡县Shàng cài XiànShangcai, a county in Zhumadian City 驻马店市
• 新蔡县Xīn cài XiànXincai, a county in Zhumadian City 驻马店市
• 痞子蔡Pǐ zi CàiRowdy Cai (1969-), Taiwanese Internet writer
• 上蔡Shàng càisee 上蔡县
• 新蔡Xīn càisee 新蔡县

Characters built on 祭

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

• 縩càisee 綷縩
• 瘵zhài(literary) disease (esp. tuberculosis)

Characters that look like 蔡

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

• 察cháto examine; to inquire; to observe
• 黎lí(literary) black; dark; many
• 熬áoto cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 蓓bèiused in 蓓蕾
• 寮liáohut; shack; small window

Sounds the same

Read Cài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 菜vegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
• 采used in 采邑
• 寀feudal estate
• 縩see 綷縩
• 埰old variant of 采