chá
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) a raft of bamboo or wood
  2. 2 (literary) to fell or hack trees

Examples

Chuánshuō zhōng kěyǐ chéng mù fá zhíshàng yínhé.
The legend says one can ride a wooden raft up to the Milky Way.

Tips

history
is a literary word for a wood-or-bamboo raft (and a verb 'to hack trees'). It is largely replaced by in modern Chinese and rarely stands alone. It is famous from the poetic image of riding a raft up to the stars. Built on the wood radical .
register
Literary and archaic. appears in classical poetry, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
tree; wood
The 'wood' radical marks as a wooden raft or an act of cutting wood, and is its indexing radical.
phonetic
chā
difference; (here) phonetic
The element supplies the sound chá; it is purely phonetic in .

Stroke Order

chá