查 (chá): meaning and stroke order

查 (chá) means to research, to check, to investigate, to examine, to refer to.

查

Simplified: 查
Traditional: 查 (same form)
Pinyin: chá · Zhā

Stroke order of 查

查

Zhā surname Zha
chá to research; to check
zhā variant of 楂[zha1]
9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 查

chá
- to research
- to check
- to investigate
- to examine
- to refer to
- to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)
Zhā
- surname Zha
zhā
- variant of 楂[zha1]

Radical and structure

查: Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on top, 旦 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 查

查看 chá kàn to look over; to examine
调查 diào chá investigation; inquiry
检查 jiǎn chá inspection; to examine

查 in our stories

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一百年后，他的孙女找到市档案馆，问能不能查一查当年的资料。

yìbǎi nián hòu tā de sūnnǚ zhǎodào shì dàng'ànguǎn wèn néng bù néng chá yì chá dāngnián de zīliào

A hundred years later his granddaughter came to the city archives and asked whether the old records could be checked.

From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 查

The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).