cǎi
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) variant of 睬, to pay attention to; to heed

Examples

Nǐ zěnme jiào tā dōu bù lǐcǎi nǐ.
No matter how you call him he ignores you completely.

Tips

history
An old graphic variant, not used in modern Chinese. The standard character is (with the eye radical), as in 理睬 (to pay heed to). This person-radical form appears only in old texts.

Components

radical
rén
person
The person radical frames it as a human act of attending to someone. The standard form swaps this for the eye radical in .
phonetic
cǎi
to pick; to gather
The right side supplies the sound cǎi with no tone shift, the same phonetic used in the standard .

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Stroke Order

cǎi