叉
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
叉 (radical 29, 又+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 水戈 (EI) or X水戈 (XEI), four-corner 17400, composition ⿴又丶)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 165, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3116
- Dae Jaweon: page 374, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 390, character 2
- Unihan data for U+53C9
ChineseEdit
| simp. and trad. |
叉 | |
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| variant forms | 义 | |
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 叉 | |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (叉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 叉 | *sʰraːl, *sʰreːl |
| 杈 | *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːls |
| 靫 | *sʰraːl, *sʰreːl |
| 汊 | *sʰraːls |
| 衩 | *sʰraːls, *sʰreːls |
| 扠 | *hr'eːl |
| 釵 | *sʰreːl |
| 芆 | *sʰreːl |
| 訍 | *sʰreːls |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 又 + 丶.
Etymology 1Edit
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
叉
- fork (pronged tool, including the eating utensil)
- to use a fork; to pick up with a fork
- (Wu) to use chopsticks to eat
- to cross; to intersect
- cross
- replacement for "x"
- 傻叉 ― shǎchā ― (please add an English translation of this example)
- (chiefly Cantonese, euphemistic) A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier.
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien) to pinch
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien) to speak rudely
- (Wu) to play (mahjong)
- (Xiang, of ducks) to eat
- (Cantonese, from English charge) to charge; to recharge
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
叉
- (Northeastern Mandarin) to block up; to jam
Pronunciation 3Edit
DefinitionsEdit
叉
Pronunciation 4Edit
DefinitionsEdit
叉
- Alternative form of 杈 (chā, “fork of a branch”).
- Alternative form of 岔 (chà, “diverge, branch off; fork in the road”).
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 叉 – see 衩 (“the open seam of a garment which allows freedom of movement”). (This character, 叉, is the second-round simplified form of 衩.) |
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Etymology 3Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 叉 – see 扠 (“pick up with fork or pincers”). (This character, 叉, is the second-round simplified form of 扠.) |
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Etymology 4Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 叉 – see 杈 (“fork of a tree; pitchfork; etc.”). (This character, 叉, is the second-round simplified form of 杈.) |
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Etymology 5Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 叉 – see 汊 (“a branching stream”). (This character, 叉, is the second-round simplified form of 汊.) |
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JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
叉 • (cha)
- Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 차 (revised: cha, McCune–Reischauer: ch'a)
- Name (hangeul): 깍지 낄 차, 갈래 차
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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