才 – genius, years old, cubic shaku

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The kanji 才 means genius, years old, cubic shaku. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is サイ (sai). It is written with 3 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	サイ	sai

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 手 (Kangxi radical 64). Components: ノ・一・亅.

Words using 才

才能さいのうtalent天才てんさいgenius

Example sentences

君には音楽の才能がある。

You have a gift for music.

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私たちは彼を天才だと思った。

We thought of him as a genius.

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Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.