踏查 tàchá survey Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 踏 tà, tā step on Components 足 足 Meaning component zú foot foot 沓 沓 Sound component dá, tà crowded, repeated Historical Pronunciations Middle ChineseOld ChineseZhengzhangtʰuːbUnicodetop Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang 查 chá investigate Original meaning: hawthorn tree Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "hawthorn tree", now written as 柤. The current meaning is a phonetic loan. Components 木 木 Meaning component mù tree 且 且 Sound component qiě moreover Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 且 than it was in ancient scripts. Component uses Sound (0 of 8 verified) 渣喳碴楂馇揸猹齄 Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔsraːzraːzraː Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang
