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查

chá

HSK 3 Character

What 查 means

1. to research
2. to check
3. to investigate
4. to examine
5. to refer to
6. to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

Other readings

查 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zhāsurname Zha
• zhāvariant of {楂|zhā}

Example sentences

• 查词典。
  Check your dictionary.
• 检查一下！
  Check that.
• 搜查房子。
  Search the house.
• 搜查继续。
  The search continues.
• 搜查房子！
  Search the house!
• 调查下这个。
  Examine this.

Words starting with 查

• 查看chá kànto look over; to examine; to check up
• 查获chá huòto track down and seize (a criminal suspect, contraband etc)
• 查询chá xúnto check; to inquire; to consult (a document etc)
• 查找chá zhǎoto search for; to look up
• 查阅chá yuèto consult; to refer to; to look sth up in a reference source
• 查出chá chūto find out; to discover
• 查尔斯Chá ěr sīCharles
• 查处chá chǔto investigate and handle (a criminal case)
• 查明chá míngto investigate and find out; to ascertain
• 查证chá zhèngto check; to verify
• 查封chá fēngto sequester; to seize (assets); to seal up
• 查清chá qīngto find out; to ascertain; to get to the bottom of
• 查验chá yàninspection; to examine
• 查禁chá jìnto prohibit; to ban; to suppress
• 查德Chá déChad (Tw)
• 查房chá fángto inspect a room; to do the rounds (medical)
• 查收chá shōuto check for receipt of (an email, an enclosed item in a letter etc)…
• 查实chá shíto verify; to ascertain
• 查问chá wènto inquire about
• 查办chá bànto investigate and handle (a criminal case)
• 查抄chá chāoto take inventory of and confiscate a criminal's possessions…
• 查对chá duìto scrutinize; to examine; to check
• 查没chá mòto confiscate
• 查点chá diǎnto check; to tally; to inventory

Words containing 查

• 检查jiǎn cháinspection; to examine; to inspect
• 调查diào cháinvestigation; inquiry; to investigate
• 审查shěn cháto examine; to investigate; to censor out
• 搜查sōu cháto search
• 侦查zhēn cháto detect; to investigate
• 考查kǎo cháto investigate; to study
• 追查zhuī cháto try to find out; to trace; to track down
• 核查hé cháto examine; to inspect
• 复查fù cháto check again; to re-examine
• 抽查chōu chárandom inspection; to do a spot check
• 清查qīng cháto investigate thoroughly; to carefully inspect; to verify
• 普查pǔ chácensus; general survey; general investigation
• 排查pái cháto inspect; to run through a checklist; to take stock
• 检查站jiǎn chá zhàncheckpoint
• 联邦调查局Lián bāng Diào chá júFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• 盘查pán cháto interrogate; to question (at a roadblock)
• 稽查jī cháinspection
• 巡查xún cháto patrol
• 人口普查rén kǒu pǔ chácensus
• 调查表diào chá biǎoquestionnaire; inventory list
• 严查yán cháto investigate strictly
• 调查员diào chá yuáninvestigator
• 检查员jiǎn chá yuáninspector
• 理查Lǐ chá(name) Richard

Characters built on 旦

These share the phonetic component 旦 (dàn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 靼dá(phonetic); dressed leather
• 妲Dáfemale personal name (archaic)
• 疸daused in 疙疸
• 怛dádistressed; alarmed; shocked
• 笪dárough bamboo mat

Characters that look like 查

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

• 羞xiūshy; ashamed; shame
• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle
• 奎kuícrotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
• 釜fǔkettle; cauldron
• 坴lùa clod of earth; land
• 杳yǎodark and quiet; disappear

Sounds the same

Read chá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 茶tea; tea plant
• 察to examine; to inquire; to observe
• 茬stubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced…
• 叉to cross; be stuck
• 搽to apply (ointment, powder); to smear; to paint on
• 碴fault; glass fragment; quarrel
• 楂fell trees; raft; to hew
• 槎a raft made of bamboo or wood; to fell trees; to hew
• 檫Chinese sassafras; Sassafras tzumu
• 猹Badger-like wild animal
• 𥻗(bound form) coarsely ground maize
• 垞mound; small hill; (used in place names)