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查
zhā
1. see [[山查<shānzhā>]]
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

查
chá
to investigate, to examine, to look into
HSK 3 9 丶

Compound Words (3)

山查
shānzhā
variant of [[山楂<shānzhā>]]
查帐
cházhàng
to audit accounts
查找
cházhǎo
to search for

Alternate Entries

查
Zhā
surname Zha
查
chá
to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
458
Word Frequency Rank
251 of 84,292

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