cháqiè

to examine into judicially to find out

Variant of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰreːd
sʰeːd

說文解字

《說文》:“詧,言微親詧也。从言,察省聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica