蔡

Cai4
#2,221 most
frequent character
surname Cai

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

蔡 cài shows 艹, plants or vegetation, with 祭 jì, a sound part that is not close today. The plants fit the first sense, 'weeds.' The surname sense came later by sound loan, not from the picture.

蔡 as a component in other characters

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礤

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