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Ts'ai

Ts'ai proper noun: a surname from Mandarin.

Proper noun

Ts'ai

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
    • Ts'ai Ch'ien 蔡乾 was born in 1908 in Changhua near Taichung, Taiwan (Formosa). His father was an accountant in a rice shop and a descendant of the three hundred Fukienese families who went to Taiwan with Koxinga, who led a rebellion there against the Manchus.
    • At the age of six Ts'ai Ch'ien entered primary school, studied Japanese, and graduated after eight years. He taught at the same school, in Changhua, for one year.[…]
    • In Shanghai Ts'ai studied sociology and learned something about Marxism.1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103

Forms of Ts'ai

alternative alsoTsai
alternative Hanyu-PinyinCai

Origin of Ts'ai

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

Phrases with Ts'ai

Questions about Ts'ai

What does Ts'ai mean?
Ts'ai means a surname from Mandarin.
What part of speech is Ts'ai?
Ts'ai is a proper noun.

Words near Ts'ai in the dictionary

  1. Ts and blues
  2. Ts and Bs
  3. Ts and Cs
  4. TS girl
  5. TS girls
  6. Ts'ai
  7. Ts'msyen
  8. ts'uḵw'um
  9. TS/SCI
  10. TSA
  11. Tsaconian

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