(chá) - to examine, to observe (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
cháTraditional: 察
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Translation
to examine, to observe (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the roof radical 宀 sits above 祭 (jì), which supplies the sound. It means to examine or observe closely and appears mostly in 警察 (jǐngchá), police.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 宀 (roof radical) + 祭 (jì, phonetic)
Stroke order
察
Examples
。
The police are here.
。
He is a police officer.
。
Call the police.
仔细。
He observed very carefully.
。
After sensing the danger, he ran immediately.
察 (chá) means to examine or observe and shows up mostly in 警察 (jǐngchá), the standard word for police officer.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 察.
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