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侘

chà
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 侘傺) frustrated and disappointed; dejected at being out of favor

Examples

怀信侘傺，忽乎吾将行。
Huái xìn chàchì, hūhū wú jiāng xíng.
Holding to his loyalty, dejected and lost, he was about to set off.
侘傺的文人把失意写进诗里。
Chàchì de wénrén bǎ shīyì xiě jìn shī lǐ.
The frustrated scholar poured his disappointment into his poems.

Tips

history
侘 is essentially bound to 侘傺 (disheartened at being out of favor), a literary word made famous by Qu Yuan's 楚辞. A separate classical sense, borrowed for 诧, is 'to boast'.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person radical
The side form of the person radical 人. It marks the character as describing a human state, here a dispirited frame of mind.
phonetic
宅 zhái
residence
Provides the sound. Read 宅 on its own, it points to the chà reading and contributes only the phonetic cue.

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Stroke Order

侘 chà