zāi
to cultivate
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zāi
to cultivate, plant; to care for plants; to grow; to plant; to insert; to force on sb; to fall head first
Most common words with 栽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to grow | ||
to grow | ||
to frame sb (by planting sth on them) | ||
Japanese: bonsai | ||
to plant |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤə | tsoj | zāi | plant (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1006% of movies
2612th most common character in movies
2401st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+683D |
Shuowen | “栽，築牆長版也。从木，聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘楚圍蔡，里而栽。’” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
