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岔

chà

HSK 6 Character

What 岔 means

1. fork in road
2. bifurcation
3. branch in road, river, mountain range etc
4. to branch off
5. to turn off
6. to diverge
7. to stray (from the path)
8. to change the subject
9. to interrupt
10. to stagger (times)

Example sentences

• 别打岔!
  Bié dǎchà!
  Don't cut in!
• 什么可以出岔子？
  Shénme kěyǐ chūchàzi?
  What can go wrong?
• 什幺可以出岔子？
  What could go wrong?
• 我们来到了岔路口。
  We've come to a fork in the road.
• 我希望您没出什么岔子。
  I hope you did not have any problem.
• 我们到达岔路口时，犹豫是继续往城镇走去，还是继续往山上走去。
  When we reached the fork, we hesitated between continuing towards the town or continuing towards the mountains.

Words starting with 岔

• 岔路chà lùfork in the road
• 岔开chà kāito diverge; to branch off the road; to change (the subject)
• 岔口chà kǒujunction; fork in road
• 岔道chà dàoside road; byway
• 岔子chà zibranch road; setback; accident
• 岔流chà liúbranch stream
• 岔调chà diào(of a voice) husky; hoarse; affected

Words containing 岔

• 打岔dǎ chàinterruption; to interrupt (esp. talk); to change the subject
• 分岔fēn chà(formal) to bifurcate; to branch; (formal) bifurcation; branching
• 眼岔yǎn chàto mistake for sth else
• 听岔tīng chàto mishear; to hear wrongly
• 道岔dào chàrailroad switch
• 出岔子chū chà zito go wrong; to take a wrong turning
• 南岔县Nán chà XiànNancha, a county in Yichun City 伊春市
• 扳道岔bān dào chàrailroad switch
• 找岔子zhǎo chà zito look for blemishes; to find fault; nitpicking
• 三岔口Sān chà kǒuAt the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水浒传
• 南岔Nán chàsee 南岔县
• 隔三岔五gé sān chà wǔvariant of 隔三差五

Characters that look like 岔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 君jūnmonarch; lord; gentleman
• 岩yáncliff; rock
• 贪tānto have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 亥hài12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the…
• 忿fènanger; indignation; hatred
• 宕dàngdissipated; put off

Sounds the same

Read chà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 差different; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack
• 刹Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 刹多罗
• 诧to be surprised; to be astonished
• 杈branches of a tree; fork of a tree
• 姹(literary) beautiful
• 叉used in 劈叉; used in 分叉
• 汊branching stream
• 侘boast; despondent
• 衩slit on either side of robe