chá
harvest
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 在 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
chá
harvest; stubble land after crop has been taken; a second crop obtained by rotation of land; an opportunity
Most common words with 茬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
an opportunity | ||
to pick fault with | ||
topic | ||
an opportunity | ||
rotation of crops |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.0343% of movies
3085th most common character in movies
3790th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+832C |
Shuowen | “茬，艸皃。从艸，在聲。濟北有茬平縣。” |
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