槎

Translingual

Han character

槎 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木廿手一 (DTQM), four-corner 4891₁, composition ⿰木差)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 546, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15320
• Dae Jaweon: page 934, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1255, character 2
• Unihan data for U+69CE

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Chinese

trad.		槎
simp. #		槎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (左) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
左	*ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls
佐	*ʔsaːls
袏	*ʔslaːls
蹉	*sʰlaːl
瑳	*sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ
搓	*sʰlaːl
磋	*sʰlaːl
溠	*sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls
傞	*sʰlaːl, *slaːl
醝	*zlaːl
瘥	*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls
鹺	*zlaːl
嵯	*zlaːl, *sʰral
嵳	*zlaːl
蒫	*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl
艖	*zlaːl, *sʰraːl
齹	*zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral
縒	*slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ
褨	*slaːlʔ
嗟	*ʔsljal
差	*sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral
鎈	*sʰraːl
槎	*zraːl, *zraːlʔ
髊	*zlals

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chá (cha²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caa⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chá
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chá
    • Wade–Giles: chʻa²
    • Yale: chá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: char
    • Palladius: ча (ča)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: caa⁴
    • Yale: chàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ca⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzrae, dzraeX

Rime
Character	槎	槎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	鉏加切	士下切
Baxter	dzrae	dzraeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒˠa/	/d͡ʒˠaX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐᵚa/	/ɖ͡ʐᵚaX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒa/	/d͡ʒaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐaɨ/	/ɖ͡ʐaɨX/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒa/	/d͡ʒaX/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒa/	/d͡ʒaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱa/	/ɖ͡ʐʱaX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chá	zhà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caa4	zaa6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤraj/, /*[dz]ˤrajʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zraːl/, /*zraːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	槎	槎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chá	chá
Middle Chinese	‹ dzræ ›	‹ dzræX ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˁraj/	/*[dz]ˁrajʔ/
English	cut trees	to cut trees
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	槎	槎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	18035	18036
Phonetic component	左	左
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	楂	槎
Old Chinese	/*zraːl/	/*zraːlʔ/
Notes		又同楂

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 槎

1. raft
2. time, occasion
3. to hew

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Japanese

Kanji

槎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゃ (ja)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)
• Kun: いかだ (ikada, 槎); きる (kiru, 槎る)

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Korean

Hanja

槎 • (cha, sa) (hangeul 차, 사, revised cha, sa, McCune–Reischauer ch'a, sa, Yale cha, sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 槎 (xay)

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