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zāi

to cut

Phonosemantic compound. 才 represents the sound and 戈 represents the meaning.

Components

才
才 Sound component
cái, cai talent
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 才 than it was in ancient scripts.
戈
戈 Meaning component
gē spear

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

裁戴截栽

Meaning (0 of 2 verified)

裁截

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsoj[ts]ˤəhurt, damage (v.)
Zhengzhangʔslɯː

說文解字

《說文》：“，傷也。从戈，才聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)