Character Details
| at (located) | Ascii: 38134 | w202 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 在 | zài | dzeye | 4 | 土 (earth) + 才 (talent) → at; in | 在 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Usually at, but also used to demonstrate an action in the present. This character is a combination of 'talent' (cái) and 'soil'. 'Talent' indicates the pronunciation; 'soil' indicates the meaning . Originally this character meant 'to exist', but it has been extended to mean 'at', 'in' or 'on'. | |||||||||||
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| - Where do you live? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 32 - 土 | tǔ | earth | earth | ground mound | 土 地 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 土 (earth) + 才 (talent) → at; in | 土 (semantic) | 才 (phonetic) | phonetic from 才 | ||||||||