差

See also 着, and 羞

Translingual

shinjitai	差
simplified	差
traditional	差

Etymology

Ideogram (指事); while current form 羊 + 工 (with distorted 羊), this is not the historical development, and it is not related to 着 or 羞.

Han character

差 (radical 48 工+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿手一 (TQM), four-corner 8021₁)

1. to differ
2. different, wrong
3. nearly, almost
4. an officer

References

• KangXi: page 326, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8732
• Dae Jaweon: page 629, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 413, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5DEE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

差 (Yale cha1, chaai1)

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Japanese

Noun

差 (hiragana さ, romaji sa)

1. difference

Kanji

差 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi), さ (sa)
• Kun: さす (差す, sasu), たがう (tagau), たがい (tagai)

Compounds

• 差異
• 差違
• 差益
• 差額
• 差金
• 差遣
• 差損
• 差等
• 差動
• 差配人
• 差別

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Korean

Hanja

差 (hangeul 차, 치, revised cha, chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'a, ch'i)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Verb

差

1. Differ from
2. Fall short of

Adjective

差

1. wanting
2. short of

Hanzi

差 (pinyin chā (cha1), chà (cha4), chāi (chai1), cī (ci1), zhào (zhao4), Wade-Giles ch'ai¹, chao⁴)

1. • John 1.6

     有一个人，是从神那里差来的，名叫约翰。

     Yǒu yīge rén, shì cóng Shén nàli chāi lái de, míngjiào John.

     There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Compounds

• chā
  • 差别
  • 差池, 差迟
  • 差错
  • 差动
  • 差讹
  • 差额
  • 差额选举
  • 差价
  • 差距
  • 差强人意
  • 差三错四
  • 差数
  • 差误
  • 差异
  • 差之毫厘，谬以千里
• chà
  • 差不点儿
  • 差不多
  • 差不离, 差不离儿
  • 差不了
  • 差得远
  • 差等
  • 差点儿
  • 差劲, 差劲儿
  • 差生
  • 差事
  • 差样, 差样的
• chāi
  • 差旅费
  • 差遣
  • 差缺
  • 差使
  • 差事
  • 差役

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Vietnamese

Han character

差 (soa, sai, sái, si, sươi, sau, sây)