Memory phrase for the character: 蔡

蔡

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Meaning surname Cai

Pronunciation

cài

Explanation

Top: plant /grass 艹, bottom: sacrifice 祭 (The body 月/肉 is put by hand on the altar 示 as a sacrifice)

Mnemonic
 
Plants are sacrificed by the family: Cai.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
祭 to sacrificeThe meat 肉/月 is placed by a hand 又 on the altar 示 (= to show) during the: Sacrifice.
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 Vocabulary

蔡元培 Cài Yuán péi  Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), liberal educationalist, studied in Germany, President of Beijing University 1917-19, minister of education for Guomindang
蔡锷 Cài è  Cai E (1882-1916), originator of the National protection army of 1915
蔡襄 Cài Xiāng  Cai Xiang (1012-1067), Song calligrapher
蔡襄 Cài Xiāng  

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