zāi HSK7

to cultivate

Components

Sound component
spear
Meaning component
tree

tree

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsoj[ts]ˤəplant (v.)
Zhengzhangʔslɯː
zlɯːs

說文解字

築牆長版也。从木𢦔聲。《春秋傳》曰:“楚圍蔡,里而𣒭。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica