chā
to separate the grain from the husk
Depicts using a pestle (午) to grind grain to be separated from its husk in a mortar (臼). Original form of 插.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]<r>op | tsrheap | chā | pestle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
8531st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+81FF |
Shuowen | “臿，舂去麥皮也。从臼，干，所以臿之。” |
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