Tsai

See also: tsai

English

Alternative forms

• Ts'ai (also from Wade–Giles)
• Cai (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From Mandarin 蔡 (Cài), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsʻai⁴.

Proper noun

Tsai (plural Tsais)

1. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
   • 2015 June 23, Jake Chung, “Students graduate on Taiwu Mountain”, in Taipei Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2022, Taiwan News‎^[2]:

     The two elementary-school students graduating this year, Yang Hao-lung (楊昊龍) and Chang Wei-shih (張煒世), started out from the school at 8:30am yesterday and jogged to Jinsha Township (金沙) Office before riding a tandem bicycle to the entrance of the ancient trail into Taiwu Mountain (太武山), bordered by the Tsai (蔡) family’s ancestral house.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tsai is the 3291^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 10968 individuals. Tsai is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.57%) individuals.

Anagrams

• -ista, Asti, IAST, IATs, Sati, Sita, Stai, TIAS, TIAs, Tais, Tisa, aits, itas, sati, tais