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Chinese surname · rank 452

宰

宰 is read as zǎi.

Pinyin

zǎi

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 宰

Basic meaning

to slaughter; to rule

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou tradition, 1046-771 BCE

Place: Zhou royal-office context; later Xihe commandery and Henan/Shanxi distribution notes treated separately.

Origin note

Zai/宰 is an office-title surname, not the ordinary verb manage or slaughter. One layer comes from the Zhou official title Zaifu, whose descendants used the official title as a surname or shortened Zaifu to Zai. Another layer connects it with a Zhougong descendant known through the Taizai office as Zai Kong. The page keeps the compound Zaifu relationship visible and records the received Baijiaxing placement separately.

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