tsai

/tsˈaɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English

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"The two elementary-school students graduating this year, Yang Hao-lung (楊昊龍) and Chang Wei-shih (張煒世), started out from the school at 8:30am yesterday and jogged to Jinsha Township (金沙) Office before riding a tandem bicycle to the entrance of the ancient trail into Taiwu Mountain (太武山), bordered by the Tsai (蔡) family’s ancestral house."

From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.

Tsais (plural) Ts'ai (alternative, also) Cai (alternative, Hanyu Pinyin)

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How do you pronounce tsai?

The recorded pronunciation is /tsˈaɪ/.

What does tsai mean?

A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

Where does tsai come from?

From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.

How to pronounce tsai

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