察

See also 詧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 祭 – study carefully at home.

Han character

察 (radical 40 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十月人火 (JBOF), four-corner 3090₁)

1. examine, investigate
2. notice

Derived characters

• 擦

References

• KangXi: page 290, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7283
• Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 948, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5BDF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

察 (Yale chaat3)

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Japanese

Kanji

察 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: さつ (satsu), せち (sechi)
• Kun: しる (shiru), みる (miru), あきらか (akiraka)

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Korean

Hanja

察 (hangeul 찰, revised chal, McCune-Reischauer ch'al)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

察 (pinyin chá (cha2), Wade-Giles ch'a2)

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Vietnamese

Han character

察 (sát, xét)