GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 449

才

才 is read as cái.

Pinyin

cái

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 才

Basic meaning

talent, ability; just, only

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Gaoyang / Zhuanxu mytho-historical tradition before 2070 BCE; modern rare-surname distribution recorded separately

Place: Gaoyang / Zhuanxu ancestry tradition is mytho-historical; modern distribution summaries emphasize Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Hebei.

Origin note

Cai is verified as a rare surname with a recorded Gaoyang / Zhuanxu ancestry tradition and a later surname-change story preserved in surname references. Because the later escape story is hard to independently document, the page presents it as a recorded tradition while grounding the row in the cited surname-reference layer and modern rare-surname evidence.

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