chà

to brag

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

宅 sound component

  Sound component

zhái

  

residence

Evolution

诧 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
诧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chà

to brag; exaggerated; to wonder at; to be surprised; to be astonished

Most common words with 诧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诧异

flabbergasted

惊诧

to be surprised

to be surprised

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2728th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BE7


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