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扠

chā

Character

What 扠 means

1. to fork

Sounds the same

Read chā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 插to insert; stick in; pierce
• 叉fork; pitchfork; prong
• 杈fork of a tree; pitchfork
• 喳used in 喳喳
• 嚓used in 咔嚓; Taiwan pr. cā
• 差difference; discrepancy; (math) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction)…
• 锸spade; shovel
• 臿to separate the grain from the husk
• 艖raft; boat
• 馇to cook and stir (animal feed); (colloquial) to simmer (porridge etc)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chā correctly.
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