Chinese Character Wiki

詫

chà

to brag

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 宅 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

宅 sound component

宅  Sound component

zhái

  

residence

Evolution

詫 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
詫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诧 (詫) 

chà

to brag; exaggerated; to wonder at; to be surprised; to be astonished

Most common words with 詫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诧异

flabbergasted

惊诧

to be surprised

诧

to be surprised

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤrak-s

trhaeH

chà

tell


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2728th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

诧

Unicode

U+8A6B


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