查

Stroke order

查 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木日一 (DAM), four-corner 4010₇, composition ⿱木旦)

• 喳 㜁 嵖 揸 楂 渣 猹 碴 𥻗 蹅 餷(馇) 齄 皶 㾴 𣉎 𬊩 𦉆 𮅤 𬠜 𮖕 𨩨(𬭠) 𪃵 𪙁 𦳘 𩮎 (Depending on regions and/or fonts, in some characters, 查 can appear as 査)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 520, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14643
• Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1181, character 7
• Unihan data for U+67E5

Historical forms of the character 查
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally written as 査, hence it is a Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa). Today, the bottom part is stylized as 旦.

It originally indicates Chinese hawthorn, also known as mountain hawthorn, today written as 山楂; it also indicates a wooden raft. The original meanings are both preserved in the syllable 楂.

查

1. (alt. form 槎) Original form of 楂 (chá, “wooden raft”).
2. to investigate; to examine; to look into; to probe

   查票  ―  chápiào  ―  to check a ticket

   查電表／查电表  ―  chá diànbiǎo  ―  to read an electric meter

   查出真相  ―  chá chū zhēnxiàng  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   查無此人／查无此人  ―  chá wú cǐ rén  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   查激素六項／查激素六项  ―  chá jīsù liù xiàng  ―  to check the levels of the six female sex hormones

3. to look up something in; to search in; to consult

   查詞典／查词典  ―  chá cídiǎn  ―  to look up (a word) in the dictionary

   查檔案／查档案  ―  chá dàng'àn  ―  to go consult reference materials

   你查邊本書㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你查边本书㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ caa⁴ bin¹ bun² syu¹ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• (to consult):

查

1. Alternative form of 楂 (zhā, “hawthorn”)

   • 河陽查子、查條 [MSC, trad.]
     河阳查子、查条 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 孟元老 (Meng Yuanlao), 飲食果子, in 東京夢華錄 (The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor)

     Héyáng zhāzǐ, zhātiáo [Pinyin]

     Heyang hawthorn, hawthorn strips

2. a surname

   查良鏞／查良镛  ―  Zhā Liángyōng  ―  Louis Cha (Chinese novelist, better known by his pen name Jin Yong)

3. (dialectal) I; me

• (me): 咱 (zán)

查

1. ^† (colloquial) government official

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01905

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. investigate, inspect

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)、じゃ (ja)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)

This character is unknown in JIS. The variant form 査 is used instead.

查 (eumhun 사실할 사 (sasilhal sa))

1. Alternative form of 査

查: Hán Nôm readings: tra, già

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