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察

chá

examine

Original meaning: 

eaves

Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 祭 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "eaves". The meaning later shifted to "observe from above", "examine", and "inspect".

Components
宀 meaning component

宀  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

祭 sound component

祭  Sound component

jì, zhài

  

sacrifice to

Evolution

察 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
察 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
察 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
察 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

察  

chá

examine, investigate; notice; to examine; to inquire; to observe; to inspect; to look into; obvious; clearly evident

察  

Chá

short name for Chahar Province 察哈爾|察哈尔[Chá​hā​'ěr]

察 (詧) 

chá

variant of 察[chá]

Most common words with 察
Freq.
Word
Meaning

警察

police

观察

to observe

考察

to inspect

检察官

public prosecutor

监察

to supervise

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

擦 嚓 檫 鑔 镲

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ˤret

tsrheat

chá

examine


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 60.4998% of movies

418th most common character in movies

564th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5BDF

Shuowen

“察，覆也。从宀、祭。”


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