碴 · chá
chipped edge of a container
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
chipped edge of a container
- Mandarin
- chá
- Cantonese
- caa4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+78B4
- Radical
- 石 · 112
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 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 碴
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsrae · 側加 反切 · #786
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6334 · tsrae = 假開二平麻莊
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
- chá
- kCantonese
- caa4
- kDefinition
- chipped edge of a container
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 112.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5677
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chá,chā 42442.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chā 0111.050 · chá 0114.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chā 034.060 · chá 035.020
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chá粵caa4