chācháchǎ HSK5

fork, prong

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approved by Peter Olson · Oct 18, 2021, 06:33 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 18, 2021, 06:33 PM

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Depicts an object being held in the hand ().

Components

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Depicts something being held in the hand.


Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰraːl
sʰreːl

說文解字

《說文》:“叉,手指相錯也。从又,象叉之形。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica