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擦
cā HSK4

wipe

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 察 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

察
察 Sound component
chá examine

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰlaːd

Sources

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