差 - Mandarin word #5371

差

chà

Traditional: 差

#5371 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

short of, lacking; poor

Stroke order

差

。

They are about the same.

店diàn。

This restaurant's service is very poor.

五wǔ八bā。

It is five minutes to eight.

餐cān厅tīng。

The service at this restaurant is poor.

绩jì。

His grades are much worse than before.

差 (chà) means lacking or short of, most often heard in 差不多 (chà bu duō), more or less.

不

not, no

差不多

about the same, almost, roughly

多

many, much, more

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 差.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 108.