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Kanji Detail for 才 - "talent, ability, gift"
才
- Meaning
才 means "talent, ability, gift."
Talent - Innate ability; natural aptitude.
Ability - Skill; capability; intelligence.
Only - Barely; just; merely. Same as 纔.
Age - Used in place of "sai" to indicate years of age.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
genius; years old; cubic shaku
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
talent, ability; just, only
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
ability, talent, gift; just, only
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Ability. Being capable is 才. Such as 雄才大略. Xie Lingyun said Cao Zhi had "eight bushels of talent." Hence, those learned and capable are called 人才, 才子. The old system had the Xiucai examination. In Han, avoiding Emperor Guangwu's name taboo, it was also called 茂才. In Ming-Qing, students were so called. | Quality. Like saying material. Such as 棟梁才, 厮養才. Commonly written as 材. | Interchangeable with 纔. Just now. Such as 剛才, 才可.
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Sentences including 才
He came to tokyo at the age of three.
He is a genius in a sense.
He thought that he was a genius.
What a genius he is !
あなたは十才ですか。
Are you ten years old?
We thought of him as a genius.
He is able in business.
He is said to be a genius.
Her son is a genius.
She is eight.