才

Meaning

1. n
   ability; gift; talent; aptitude; genius
2. n
   sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

Example sentences

• 少年は十二才で音楽学校を退学させられた。

  The boy was expelled from music school when he was 12.

• 「そうか。やはり私のほうが年を食ってる。私は今年で２０うんたら才だ」「いや、わかんねーよ」

  "Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old." "What does that tell me?"

• 非凡の才が優れていればいるほど、世間の人々がそれを発見し理解するのに長い時間がかかる。

  The greater the genius, the longer it takes the world to find it out and understand it.