汊

汊 U+6C4A, 汊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C4A ← 汉 [U+6C49] CJK Unified Ideographs 汋 → [U+6C4B]

Translingual

Han character

汊 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水水戈 (EEI), four-corner 3714₀, composition ⿰氵叉)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 604, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17115
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1556, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6C4A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		汊
2nd round simp.		叉
alternative forms		㲼 ⿰氵义

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
叉	*sʰraːl, *sʰreːl
杈	*sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːls
靫	*sʰraːl, *sʰreːl
汊	*sʰraːls
衩	*sʰraːls, *sʰreːls
扠	*hr'eːl
釵	*sʰreːl
芆	*sʰreːl
訍	*sʰreːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰraːls) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 叉 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰreːl, “to intersect”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chà (cha⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caa¹ / caa³
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsho; ⁵tsha

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chà
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chà
    • Wade–Giles: chʻa⁴
    • Yale: chà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chah
    • Palladius: ча (ča)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: caa¹ / caa³
    • Yale: chā / cha
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaa¹ / tsaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ca¹ / ca³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰaː³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsho; ⁵tsha
    • MiniDict: tsho^去; tsha^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsho; ²tsha
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰo³⁴/, /t͡sʰa³⁴/

Note:

• 2tsho - vernacular;
• 2tsha - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhaeH

Rime
Character	汊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	楚嫁切
Baxter	tsrhaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠaH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚaH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨH/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰaH/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰaH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰaH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caa3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰraːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汊
Reading #	1/1
No.	1178
Phonetic component	叉
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰraːls/

Definitions

汊

1. a branching stream

Compounds

• 水汊
• 汈汊 (Diāochà)
• 汊子 (chàzi)
• 汊河 (Chàhé)
• 汊流 (chàliú)
• 汊港 (chàgǎng)
• 河汊子
• 港汊 (gǎngchà)

Japanese

Kanji

汊

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. branching stream

Readings

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 汊 (MC tsrhaeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 차 (cha) (Yale: cha) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

汊

汊 (eumhun 물 갈래지을 차 (mul gallaejieul cha))

1. hanja form^? of 차 (“branching of water”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.