Zai (surname)

Zai is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 宰 in Chinese character. It is romanized Tsai in Wade–Giles. Zai is listed 302nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China.

Notable people

Zai Kong (宰孔; 7th century BC), Duke of Zhou during the Spring and Autumn period

Zai Yu or Zai Wo (522–458 BC), disciple of Confucius, one of the Twelve Philosophers

Zai Yingwen (宰应文), Ming dynasty person famous for filial piety

References

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Zai

Zai may refer to:

Zaï, an off season farming technique to collect water and nutrients from compost

Zai (surname) (宰), a Chinese surname

Zai (tribe), Pashtun tribes

Zai, Palghar, a village in Maharashtra, India

Zväz autorov a interprétov populárnej hudby (Union of Authors and Performers, ZAI), a presenter of the ZAI Awards

Zaire, a former state in Africa

Zayin, a letter of many Semetic abjads

Isthmus Zapotec (ISO 639-3: zai), a Zapotecan language of Mexico

Given names

Li Zai (died 1343), Chinese painter

Wang Zai, Chinese general of the Tang Dynasty

Yuan Zai (died 777), Chinese noble, Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

Zhang Zai (1020–1077), Chinese philosopher and cosmologist

Zai Bennett, Television executive

Zai Fundo (1899–1944), Albanian journalist and writer

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Zayin

Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Zayin , Hebrew 'Zayin ז, Aramaic Zain , Syriac Zayn ܙ, and Arabic Zayn ز. It represents the sound [z].

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan z , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З.

The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. In Biblical Hebrew, zayin (זין) means "sword", and the verb lezayen (לזיין) means "to arm". In modern Hebrew slang, zayin (זין) means "penis" and lezayen (לזין) is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse (similar to "fuck"), although the older meaning survives in maavak mezuyan ("armed struggle") (מאבק מזוין), kohot mezuyanim ("armed forces") (כוחות מזוינים), and beton mezuyan (בטון מזוין) ("armed, i.e., reinforced concrete"). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a "manacle".