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插

chā

insert

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 臿 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

臿 sound,meaning component

臿  Sound Meaning component

chā

  

to separate the grain from the husk

Depicts using a pestle (午) to grind grain to be separated from its husk in a mortar (臼).

Evolution

插 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
插 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

插  

chā

insert, stick into; plant; to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose

插 (揷) 

chā

old variant of 插[chā]

Most common words with 插
Freq.
Word
Meaning

插

to insert

插手

to meddle

插入

to insert

插曲

incidental music

插槽

slot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-[tsʰ]<r>op

tsrheap

chā

insert


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 27.5509% of movies

1341st most common character in movies

1495th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63D2

Shuowen

“插，刺肉也。从手，从臿。”


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