chái

a company

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

齊 sound component

  Sound component

  

even, uniform

Evolution

儕 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
儕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
儕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chái

a company, companion; together; a class; a company; companion

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤ<r>əj

dzreaj

chái

category, equals


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5429th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+5115

Shuowen

“儕,等輩也。从人,齊聲。”


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