chāi

to break up

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

斥 sound component

  Sound component

chì

  

to scold

Definitions

 

chāi

to break up, split apart, rip open; to destroy; to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open

Most common words with 拆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to tear open

拆迁

to demolish a building and relocate the inhabitants

拆除

to tear down

拆开

to dismantle

拆散

to break up (a marriage, family etc)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤ<r>ak (dialect: *qʰˤr- > *r̥ˤ- > trh-)

trhaek

chāi

take apart, dismantle


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 13.2468% of movies

1815th most common character in movies

2076th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+62C6


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