chāchà

fork of a tree

Where two branches  fork  also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

叉 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

chācháchǎ

  

fork, prong

Evolution

杈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
杈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chā

fork of a tree; a pitchfork; pitchfork

 

chà

branches of a tree

Most common words with 杈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pitchfork

打杈

to prune (branches)

丫杈

fork (of a tree)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4529th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6748

Shuowen

“杈,枝也。从木,叉聲。”


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