锸 · chā
spade, shovel; marking pin
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
spade, shovel; marking pin
- Mandarin
- chā
- Cantonese
- caap3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9538
- Radical
- 钅 · 167
- 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 锸
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
鍤
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trhjep · 丑輒 反切 · #3818
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 19982 · trhjep = 咸開三入鹽徹
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
- caap3
- kDefinition
- spade, shovel; marking pin
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 167'.9
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+9364
- kTGH
- 2013:5737
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chā 0112.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chā 034.070