HSK 6 · Places

岔 chà “fork (in a road)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 岔 means

  1. fork (in a road)
  2. to branch off
  3. to change (the subject)
  4. fork in road
  5. bifurcation
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • branch in road, river, mountain range etc
  • to turn off
  • to diverge

How to say 岔

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale岔chà4th tone, falling

岔 in a sentence

  1. 我们来到了岔路口。

    Wǒmen láidào le chàlùkǒu.

    We’ve come to a fork in the road.

    Sentence #13540036 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 别打岔！

    Bié dǎchà!

    Don’t interrupt!

    Sentence #4271755 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 岔 can also mean “a mishap”, as in 出岔子 (“to go wrong”)

    我希望您没出什么岔子。

    Wǒ xīwàng nín méi chū shénme chàzi.

    I hope nothing went wrong for you.

    Sentence #10606798 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 岔 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 岔 (chà) with each of its parts in a different colour
岔chàfork in road
  • 分to divide · fēn
  • 山mountain · shān

How to write 岔

岔 7 strokes

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岔 (chà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 岔 (chà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 岔

More words: Places & Geography

边境biānjìng · border area边缘biānyuán · edge别墅biéshù · villa仓库cāngkù · warehouse场所chǎngsuǒ · place城堡chéngbǎo · castle赤道chìdào · the equator地势dìshì · terrain

FAQs

岔 (chà) means “fork (in a road)” or “to branch off”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chà: chà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 岔 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 岔 from the suggestions. Typing cha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
岔 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.