Character Details
| check/look into/inspect (to) | Ascii: — | w345 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 查 | chá | tchah | 2 | 木 (tree) + 旦 (dawn) → check | 查 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A tree which grows on top of a bookshelf would prompt people to investigate. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - The original meaning of this character was 'raft'. To check and explore what lies beyond the horizon, you need a raft of some sort. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Let me check it out | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 75 - 曰 | yuē | tree | say | open‑mouth sun | 曰 曹 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 木 (tree) + 旦 (dawn) → check | 木 (semantic) | 且 (phonetic) | phonetic from 且 | ||||||||