Chinese Character Wiki

鍤

chā

spade

Evolution

鍤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鍤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

锸 (鍤) 

chā

spade, shovel; marking pin; spade; shovel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

锸

Unicode

U+9364

Shuowen

“鍤，郭衣鍼也。从金，臿聲。”


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