Ts'ai

See also: tsai, and Tsai

English

Alternative forms

• Tsai (also from Wade–Giles)
• Cai (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.

Proper noun

Ts'ai

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • 1957, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China‎, Harvard University Press, published 1968, →OCLC, page 103:

     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.

   • 1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China‎, Harvard University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

     Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.

   • 2012 February 17, Mark Levine, “Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-24‎:

     The origins of what paper cognoscenti call “true paper,” which requires the breaking-down and reconstitution of plant fibers, are often dated to A.D. 105 and linked to Ts’ai Lun, a eunuch in the court of Emperor Han Ho Ti of China.