茬 meaning and stroke order
Opportunity; farmland after the harvest
How to write 茬, stroke by stroke
9 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 茬
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- stubble (crop residue)
- stubble (hair growth)
- classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop
- sth just said or mentioned
How 茬 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Plant.
艹 gives the meaning and 在 hints at the sound.
Radical: 艹 (grass), shared by 421 characters on this site.
How to remember 茬
茬 (chá) puts the grass radical 艹 on top of 在 (zài, to be at). Picture short plant stalks that are still there in the field after harvest: stubble.
茬 means crop stubble or short hair stubble, and it also counts crops grown in one cycle, as in 一茬 (yì chá, one crop). In daily speech it shows up most in 找茬 (zhǎochá), meaning to pick a fight or nitpick, and in 接茬 (jiēchá), to pick up on what someone just said. Example: 他总是找我的茬。(Tā zǒngshì zhǎo wǒ de chá.) He is always finding fault with me.
Common mistake: Learners often read 茬 as zài because of the 在 part. The phonetic is only a loose hint, and the correct reading is chá with a second tone. Also do not mix it up with 茶 (chá, tea), which sounds the same but has 人 and 木 under the grass radical.
Common words with 茬
Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 找茬 | zhǎochá | to pick fault with; to spot the differences |
茬 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Questions about 茬
How many strokes are in 茬?
茬 is written with 9 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 茬 mean?
茬 (chá) means opportunity; farmland after the harvest. A common word with it is 找茬 (zhǎochá), meaning "to pick fault with; to spot the differences".
How do you pronounce 茬?
茬 is pronounced chá, in the second tone (rising).
What is the radical of 茬?
The radical of 茬 is 艹, which carries the idea of "grass". Dictionaries list 茬 under this radical.
Why is 找茬 also the name of a game?
找茬 literally means to look for faults, so it is used for spot-the-difference puzzles where you find what is wrong between two pictures. The same phrase about people means to deliberately pick on someone.
How do you say beard stubble with 茬?
Use 胡子茬 (húzichá) or 胡茬 (húchá) for the short stubble on a man's face. For example, 他满脸胡茬。(Tā mǎn liǎn húchá.) His face is covered in stubble.