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查

chá, zhā

investigate

Original meaning: 

hawthorn tree

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "hawthorn tree", now written as 柤. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

且 sound component

且  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Definitions

查  

chá

investigate, examine, seek into; to research; to check; to investigate; to examine; to refer to; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

查  

Zhā

surname Zha

查  

zhā

see 山查[shān​zhā]

Most common words with 查
Freq.
Word
Meaning

调查

inquiry

检查

inspection

查

to check

搜查

to search

查看

to look over

Component uses

Sound component in 8 characters (0 verified)

渣 喳 碴 楂 揸 猹 馇 齄

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 73.8267% of movies

255th most common character in movies

459th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67E5


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