差 · chà · chā
to differ; different, wrong; nearly, almost; an officer
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to differ; different, wrong; nearly, almost; an officer
- Mandarin
- chà · chā
- Cantonese
- caa1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 差 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
サ サイ シ セ タ シャ さす たかう つかわす ややKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 차
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5DEE
- Radical
- 工 · 48
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 差
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsrhje · 楚宜 反切 · #120
- Middle Chinese
- tsrhea · 楚佳 反切 · #330
- Middle Chinese
- tsrheaj · 楚皆 反切 · #348
- Middle Chinese
- tsrhae · 初加 反切 · #783
- Middle Chinese
- tsrheaH · 楚懈 反切 · #2457
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1088 · tsrhje = 止開三平支初 · tsrhea = 蟹開二平佳初 · tsrheaj = 蟹開二平皆初 · tsrhae = 假開二平麻初 · tsrheaH = 蟹開二去佳初
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chà chā
- kCantonese
- caa1
- kDefinition
- to differ; different, wrong; nearly, almost; an officer
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 48.7
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:1640
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chā,chà,chāi,chài,cī,cuō,jiē 10413.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chā 0111.030 · chà 0114.150 · chāi 0115.100 · chài 0116.070 · cī 0172.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chā 034.020 · chà 035.180 · chāi 036.010 · cī 054.190
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chà(241) chā(60) chāi(26)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chà粵caa1 chā粵caa1 chāi粵caai1 cī粵ci1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 楚宜 楚佳 楚皆 初加 楚懈
- Kangxi positions
- 0326.020
- Guangyun positions
- 048.23 093.45 095.19 167.42 383.56
- GSR references
- 0005f
- Cangjie
- TQM
- Four-corner
- 8021.1