槎
chá

raft

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

差
差 Sound component
chà, chā, chāi to differ

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzræ[dz]ˤrajcut trees
dzræX[dz]ˤrajʔto cut trees
Zhengzhangzraːl
zraːlʔ
Unicodejrha

說文解字

衺斫也。从木差聲。《春秋傳》曰:“山不槎。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica