# 縡

| 縡 | U+7E21, &#32289; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E21 |
| ← 縠 [U+7E20] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 縢 → [U+7E22] |

## Translingual
### Han character

縡 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火十卜十 (VFJYJ), four-corner 2394$_1$, composition ⿰糹宰)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 20
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27781
* Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3440, character 6
* Unihan data for U+7E21

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zǎi, zài (zai$^3$, zai$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄞˇ, ㄗㄞˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi$^2$ / zoi$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zǎi
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄞˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zǎi
*** Wade–Giles: tsai$^3$
*** Yale: dzǎi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzae
*** Palladius: цзай (czaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zài
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄞˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zài
*** Wade–Giles: tsai$^4$
*** Yale: dzài
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzay
*** Palladius: цзай (czaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡saɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zoi$^2$ / zoi$^3$
*** Yale: jói / joi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi$^2$ / dzoi$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zoi$^2$ / zoi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɔːi̯³⁵/, /t͡sɔːi̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: tsojX, tsojH
Rime :
| Character | 縡 | 縡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 咍 (41) | 咍 (41) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 作亥切 | 作代切 |
| Baxter | tsojX | tsojH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʌi$^X$/ | /t͡sʌi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡səi$^X$/ | /t͡səi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sɒi$^X$/ | /t͡sɒi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡səj$^X$/ | /t͡səj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sᴀi$^X$/ | /t͡sᴀi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sɒi$^X$/ | /t͡sɒi$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡sɑ̆i$^X$/ | /t͡sɑ̆i$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zǎi | zài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zoi$^2$ | zoi$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯːʔ/, /*ʔsɯːs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 縡 | 縡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 16507 | 16508 |
| Phonetic component | 宰 | 宰 |
| Rime group | 之 | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 宰 | 載 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsɯːʔ/ | /*ʔsɯːs/ |

### Definitions

縡
* (literary) thing; matter; affair

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* thing, matter
* life

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): さい (sai)
* Kun: こと (koto, 縡)、いき (iki, 縡)

### Definitions

* Kanji in this term
* 縡
* こと Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 縡 – see the following entry. :
| 【こと】 | [noun] broadly, any abstract thing, affair, matter, or fact [noun] a thing, occasion, circumstances, detail, particular [noun] act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases) [noun] (by extension) experience, having been or done (used with ある (aru, “have, possess”)) [noun] event of special importance: affair, something, incident, case, occurrence, trouble [noun] business matters, affairs, business, work, duty [noun] Used as a nominalizer for precepts. [noun] It is said that; I've heard that (used with とのこと) [noun] Used to introduce aliases/stage names. Alternative spellings 事, 亊, ヿ |
(This term, 縡, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.) :

### References

* ↑ “縡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

## Korean
### Hanja

縡 • (jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune–Reischauer chae, Yale cay)
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