侪 (chái): people of the same kind; peers

Meanings

1 people of the same kind; peers
2 company; companion

Characters

侪

chái

peers; same kind

Examples

HSK 7-9

吾侪当共勉之。

Wú chái dāng gòng miǎn zhī.

We of like mind should encourage one another.

HSK 7-9

他与侪辈相比毫不逊色。

Tā yǔ chái bèi xiāngbǐ háobú xùnsè.

Compared with his peers, he's by no means inferior.

Tips

register

Classical/literary character - almost never appears alone in modern Chinese. Look for the compounds: 吾侪 'we / us of the same kind,' 侪辈 'peers; one's generation,' 侪类 'people of the same sort.'

Components

radical

亻 rén

person (radical form of 人)

Left-side person radical, the standing two-stroke form of 人. The indexing radical, marking 侪 as a person-collective noun: it means a peer group, those of the same kind, fellows of one's generation. The radical anchors it firmly in the family of social-category characters: 们 plural marker, 伙 companions, 侣 partner, 倌 attendant.

phonetic

齐 qí

even; uniform; together

Right side 齐 supplies the sound: qí to chái, old palatalisation reversed. 齐 pictures ears of grain at the same height - 'evenly aligned, arranged in level rows.' Perfect semantic flavour for 侪: people lined up at the same rank, a homogeneous cohort. Same phonetic family: 济 to help-across, 跻 to climb-evenly.