chá

raft

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

wood

差 sound component

  Sound component

chàchāchāi

  

to differ

Evolution

槎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
槎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chá

raft; time, occasion; to hew; a raft made of bamboo or wood; to fell trees

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤraj

dzrae

chá

cut trees

*[dz]ˤrajʔ

dzraeX

chá

to cut trees


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5143rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+69CE

Shuowen

“槎,衺斫也。从木,差聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘山不槎’。”


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