札
zhá

letter

札 zhá
letter measure word
a personal letter or note

拜读大札，深受启发。

bài​dú dà zhá, shēn shòu qǐ​fā.

I have read your esteemed letter and was deeply inspired.

official document noun
a type of official document used in former times

这份札详细记录了当年的政令。

zhè fèn zhá xiáng​xì jì​lù le dāng​nián de zhèng​lìng.

This document records the government decrees of that year in detail.

plague noun
a plague, pestilence, or epidemic

在一些古籍中，“札”这个字被用来指代瘟疫。

zài yī​xiē gǔ​jí zhōng,“ zhá” zhè​ge zì bèi yòng​lái zhǐ​dài wēn​yì.

In some ancient texts, the character 'Zha' was used to refer to plagues.

writing tablet noun
thin piece of wood used as a writing tablet in ancient China

古代纸张发明之前，人们常在木札上记录文字。

gǔ​dài zhǐ​zhāng fā​míng zhī​qián, rén​men cháng zài mù​zhá shàng jì​lù wén​zì.

Before the invention of paper in ancient times, people often recorded texts on wooden tablets.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,211th most common 7.57 per million
Movie subtitles
3,547th most common 1.32 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.52 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.85 per million

Details
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+672D

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