汊

汊	U+6C4A, 汊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C4A

← 汉
[U+6C49]

CJK Unified Ideographs

汋 →
[U+6C4B]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

KangXi: page 604, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17115

Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1556, character 4

Unihan data for U+6C4A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		汊
variant forms		叉 second round simplified

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, OC *sʰraːls) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 叉 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰreːl, “to intersect”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chà (cha⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caa¹, caa³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: chà
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˋ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'a⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chah
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: caa¹, caa³
  - Yale: chā, cha
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaa¹, tsaa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ca¹, ca³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰäː⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰäː³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ʃʰˠa^H/▼

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠa^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚa^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰa^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨ^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰa^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰa^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰa^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chà

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

a branching stream

Compounds

水汊
汈汊 (Diāochà)
汊子

汊河 (Chàhé)
汊流
汊港

河汊子
港汊

Japanese

Kanji

汊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): さ (sa), しゃ (sha)

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