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察

察

See also: 詧

Translingual

Han character

察 (radical 40 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十月人火 (JBOF), four-corner 30901, composition ⿱宀祭)

  1. examine, investigate
  2. notice

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 290, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7283
  • Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 948, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5BDF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 察

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (祭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔡 *sʰlaːds
瘵 *ʔsreːds
祭 *ʔsreːds, *ʔsleds
際 *ʔsleds
穄 *ʔsleds
鰶 *ʔsleds
傺 *hr'eds
摖 *sʰleːds
擦 *sʰlaːd
攃 *sʰlaːd, *saːd
礤 *sʰlaːd
察 *sʰreːd
詧 *sʰreːd, *sʰeːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰreːd) : semantic 宀 ‎(“roof”) + phonetic 祭 ‎(OC *ʔsreːds, *ʔsleds) – study carefully at home.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 察
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰa³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰa²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰɑ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰa²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰa²¹/
Xining /t͡sʰa⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰa⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰa³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰa²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰa̠³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰaʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡sʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰa²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰat̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰɑt̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰat̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰat̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰuɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 察
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 鎋 (75)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 初八切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰˠɛt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰəɨt̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰæt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cha
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 察
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrhɛt ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˤret/
English examine

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 察
Reading # 1/1
No. 5849
Phonetic
component		 祭
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𪙻
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰreːd/

Definitions

察

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

察

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. guess

Readings

Korean

Hanja

察 • ‎(chal) (hangeul 찰, revised chal, McCune-Reischauer ch'al)

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Vietnamese

Han character

察 (sát, xét)

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