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). Original form of 插.
Bronze script
Seal script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]<r>op | tsrheap | chā | pestle |
Not found in HSK word list
8531st most common character in books
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+81FF |
Shuowen | “臿,舂去麥皮也。从臼,干,所以臿之。” |