Tsai

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proper noun

A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

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Meanings

proper nounTsai (plural Tsais)

plural Tsais · alternative also Ts'ai · alternative Hanyu Pinyin Cai

  1. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
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    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.

    2015 June 23, Jake Chung, “Students graduate on Taiwu Mountain”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022, Taiwan News

Origin

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

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Cite this entry
APA

Tsai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsai

MLA

“Tsai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsai. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tsai,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tsai.

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