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侘

chà
adjective

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 7-9
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.
HSK 7-9
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