鍤
chā

spade

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰreːb
r̥ʰeb

說文解字

郭衣鍼也。从金臿聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

锸 chā spade Simplified

Components

钅
钅 Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

臿
臿 Sound component
chā to separate the grain from the husk

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode