才 (cái): meaning and stroke order
才 (cái) means ability; talent, sb of a certain type, a capable individual, then and only then, just now.
才
- Simplified
- 才
- Traditional
- 才, 纔
- Pinyin
- cái
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Stroke order of 才
才
- cái ability; talent; sb of a certain type
- cái (variant of 才[cai2]) just now; (variant of 才[cai2]) (before an expression of quantity) only
- 3 strokes
- Traditional form: 纔
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Meaning of 才
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cái
- ability; talent
- sb of a certain type
- a capable individual
- then and only then
- just now
- (before an expression of quantity) only
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cái
Traditional 纔
- (variant of 才[cai2]) just now
- (variant of 才[cai2]) (before an expression of quantity) only
Radical and structure
- 才
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 3 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 才
- 人才 rén cái talent; talented person
- 天才 tiān cái talent; gift
- 刚才 gāng cái just now; a moment ago
才 in our stories
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人们相信，只有世界太平、有伟大的人出生的时候，麒麟才会出现。
rénmen xiāngxìn zhǐyǒu shìjiè tàipíng yǒu wěidà de rén chūshēng de shíhou qílín cái huì chūxiàn
People believed that the qilin appeared only when the world was at peace and a great person was born.
From the story The qilin HSK 4
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他回去仔细看了商品介绍，才发现上面写着：“玩具沙发，长十八厘米。”
tā huíqu zǐxì kàn le shāngpǐn jièshào cái fāxiàn shàngmiàn xiě zhe wánjù shāfā cháng shíbā límǐ
He went back and read the product description carefully, and only then saw that it said, "Toy sofa, 18 cm long."
From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
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学校只有两间教室，五十多个学生，最小的才六岁。
xuéxiào zhǐ yǒu liǎng jiān jiàoshì wǔshí duō gè xuésheng zuì xiǎo de cái liù suì
The school had only two classrooms and fifty-odd pupils; the youngest was just six.
From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5
Stories using 才
- The qilin HSK 4
- The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
- English on the basketball court HSK 5
- The three-tier cake HSK 5
- Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5
- The dry floor HSK 6
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).