再 (zài): meaning and stroke order
再 (zài) means again; once more; re-, further; beyond this point of time, (before an adjective) more.
再
- Simplified
- 再
- Traditional
- 再 (same form)
- Pinyin
- zài
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Stroke order of 再
再
- zài again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 再
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zài
- again; once more; re-
- further; beyond this point of time
- (before an adjective) more
- then (after sth, and not until then)
- no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis)
- (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc)
- (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
Radical and structure
- 再
- Radical 冂 (Kangxi radical 13) · 6 strokes · 一 on top, 冉 below
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 再
- 不再 bù zài no more; no longer
- 再见 zài jiàn goodbye; see you again later
再 in our stories
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有人笑着让吴迪也试一试，他红着脸做了三个，就再也上不去了。
yǒurén xiào zhe ràng Wú Dí yě shì yí shì tā hóng zhe liǎn zuò le sān gè jiù zài yě shàng bú qù le
Someone laughingly told Wu Di to have a go. Red-faced, he did three and then couldn't pull himself up again.
From the story Pull-ups HSK 4
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唐磊高兴极了，从此不再想新的口味，每天只坐在店里等下一个网红。
Táng Lěi gāoxìng jí le cóngcǐ bú zài xiǎng xīn de kǒuwèi měitiān zhǐ zuò zài diàn lǐ děng xià yí gè wǎnghóng
Tang Lei was overjoyed. From then on he stopped thinking up new flavours and just sat in the shop every day waiting for the next influencer.
From the story Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
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这回他终于明白了，马上把羊圈修好，以后再也没丢过羊。
zhè huí tā zhōngyú míngbai le mǎshàng bǎ yángjuàn xiū hǎo yǐhòu zài yě méi diū guò yáng
This time he finally understood, mended the fold at once, and never lost a sheep again.
From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
Stories using 再
- Pull-ups HSK 4
- Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
- Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
- A second chance HSK 5
- Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6
- The banquet that never ended 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).