茬
chá

harvest

茬 chá
stubble noun
the short remains of plants left in the soil after harvesting or the growth of hair after shaving

他的下巴上冒出了青青的胡茬。

tā de xià​ba shàng mào​chū le qīng​qīng de hú chá.

Stubble was beginning to show on his chin.

batch measure word
a classifier for a batch of things produced during a particular cycle, such as a crop

这一茬韭菜长得非常鲜嫩。

zhè yī chá jiǔ​cài zhǎng de fēi​cháng xiān​nèn.

This crop of chives is very fresh and tender.

remark noun
something that has just been said or mentioned in the course of a conversation

他刚才那个茬我没接上。

tā gāng​cái nà​gè chá wǒ méi jiē​shàng.

I didn't pick up on what he was saying just now.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,790th most common 3.71 per million
Movie subtitles
3,088th most common 3.03 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.38 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.18 per million

Details
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+832C

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