岔
chà HSK7

diverge

岔 chà
fork noun
a fork or branch in a road, river, or mountain range; to branch off or turn off

河流在这里形成了一个岔，分成了两条支流。

hé​liú zài zhè​lǐ xíng​chéng le yī gè chà, fēn​chéng le liǎng tiáo zhī​liú.

The river forks here, splitting into two tributaries.

stray verb
to diverge or stray from a path or intended course

他一不留神，走岔了道。

tā yī bù liú​shén, zǒu chà le dào.

He took the wrong path because he wasn't paying attention.

interrupt verb
to change the subject or interrupt a conversation

请不要随便打岔，让老师把话说完。

qǐng bù yào suí​biàn dǎ​chà, ràng lǎo​shī bǎ huà shuō wán.

Please don't interrupt; let the teacher finish speaking.

stagger verb
to stagger or offset times to avoid overlapping

咱们把休假的时间岔开，别赶在一起。

zán​men bǎ xiū​jià de shí​jiān chà​kāi, bié gǎn zài yī​qǐ.

Let's stagger our vacations so they don't overlap.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,134th most common 8.26 per million
Movie subtitles
2,711th most common 5.91 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.19 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5C94

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)