杈 · chā
fork of a tree; a pitchfork
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
fork of a tree; a pitchfork
- Mandarin
- 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 杈 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.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
サ シャ セ サイ あじか えだ やらい やすKorean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6748
- Radical
- 木 · 75
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 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 杈
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 叉 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 叉聲
Line 4207 · ⿰木叉 · 叉聲 · source reference 2061560
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- 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 6305 · 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
- chā
- kCantonese
- caa1
- kDefinition
- fork of a tree; a pitchfork
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 75.3
- kTGH
- 2013:3681
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chā,chà 21163.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chā 0112.030 · chà 0115.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chā 034.010 · chà 035.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chā粵caa1 chà粵caa3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 初加 楚懈
- Kangxi positions
- 0511.030
- Guangyun positions
- 167.41 384.03
- Cangjie
- DEI
- Four-corner
- 4794.0