祭

In Japanese handwriting, the diagonals of the upper right component cross: the short upper-right to lower-left stroke crosses the long upper-left to lower-right stroke, rather than abutting there.

祭 (radical 113, 示+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月人一一火 (BOMMF), four-corner 2790₁)

• 傺 㡜 際 (际) 摖 漈 憏 暩 磜 穄 縩 鰶 蔡 察 瘵

• KangXi: page 843, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24700
• Dae Jaweon: page 1263, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2397, character 7
• Unihan data for U+796D

Historical forms of the character 祭
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : ⺼ (“meat”) + 又 (“hand”) + 示 (“altar, ceremony”) – the hand offers a piece of meat at the altar during a ceremony.

The top is not related to but may be corrupted to 癶 in calligraphy and handwriting. The left part is ⺼ twisted to the left (compare 將, 然). The right part is a form of 又.

祭

1. to make offerings to; to sacrifice to; to worship
2. a ceremony where one offers sacrifices to one's ancestors

祭

1. (～國) Zhai (a state during the Spring and Autumn period)
2. A surname​.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02896
• (Min Nan) “Entry #7709”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. festival

• Go-on: さい (sai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: まつる (matsuru, 祭る, Jōyō); まつり (matsuri, 祭り, Jōyō)

• 祭 (まつ)り (matsuri)

祭 • (je, chae) (hangeul 제, 채, revised je, chae, McCune–Reischauer che, ch'ae, Yale cey, chay)

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祭 (tế, sái)

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