Tsai
name ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.
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