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Ts'ai
name
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Proper Noun
- 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."
Etymology
From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.
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