載 Stroke Order
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Information of 載
Pinyin
zài、 zǎi
Radical
車
Strokes
13 strokes
Usage
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Definition
year, to carry / to convey / to load / to hold / and / also / as well as / simultaneously
載 (zài)
1. Year; age.
Example: 千載難逢 (A rare opportunity, literally "once in a thousand years"). 三年兩載 (Three years and two seasons).
2. To record; to publish; to depict.
Example: 記載 (to record). 連載 (to serialize). 轉載 (to reprint).
Noun, measure word. A unit for measuring time, equivalent to "year."
Words: 一年半載 (one and a half years), 三年五載 (three years and five years), 千載難逢 (a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity).
3. To load; to carry with a vehicle.
Example: 載客 (to carry passengers). 載貨 (to carry goods). 載重 (to bear weight). 載體 (to load).
4. To be filled.
Example: 怨聲載道 (complaints are everywhere).
5. To indicate simultaneous actions (often used in classical texts).
Example: 載歌載舞 (to sing and dance simultaneously).
6. Surname.
Verb: To ride or to take a vehicle.
Reference: 《说文解字．车部》: "載, to ride."
Example: 陆行載車 (land travel on vehicles), 水行載舟 (water travel on boats).
Example from poetry: 吾欲載車馬, 太行路峥嵘 (I wish to take a carriage and horses, the Taihang road is rugged).
Verb: To load and transport.
Example: 載人 (to carry people), 載貨 (to load goods).
Example from poetry: 巨鳌莫載三山去, 我欲蓬莱頂上行 (The giant tortoise cannot carry the Three Mountains away; I wish to travel to the top of Penglai).