察

See also: 詧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 祭 – study carefully at home.

Han character

察 (radical 40 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十月人火 (JBOF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀祭)

1. examine, investigate
2. notice

Derived characters

• 擦

References

• KangXi: page 290, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7283
• Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 948, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5BDF

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		察

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chá (cha²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caat³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chá
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'a²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: char
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa̠³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: caat³
    • Yale: chaat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaat⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑːt̚³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (察, reconstructed)
Character (察), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 初 (19) Final: 鎋 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 初八切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɣɛt̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰat̚/	/t͡ʃʰɛt̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɯæt̚/	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɨt̚/	/t͡ʃʰæt̚/	/t͡ʃʰæt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (察, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
察								chá								‹ tsrhɛt ›								/*[tsʰ]ˤret/								examine
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
察					5849					祭					月					2					𪙻					/*sʰreːd/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

察

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さつ (satsu), せち (sechi)
• Kun: しる (shiru), みる (miru), あきらか (akiraka)

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Korean

Hanja

察 (chal) (hangeul 찰, revised chal, McCune-Reischauer ch'al)

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Vietnamese

Han character

察 (sát, xét)

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