Chinese Character Wiki

札

zhá

letter

Evolution

札 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
札 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
札 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
札 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
札 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

札  

zhá

letter, note; correspondence; thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China); a kind of official document (in former times); letter; note; plague

札 (劄) 

zhá

variant of 札[zhá]

Most common words with 札
Freq.
Word
Meaning

札

letter

札幌

Sapporo, Japan

札记

reading notes

手札

(literary) personal letter

信札

letter

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

紮

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-qˤrət

tsreat

zhá

strip (n.), tablet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3211th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+672D

Shuowen

“札，牒也。从木，乙聲。”


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